Sergiusz Michalski is professor of art history at the University of Tübingen. His previous books include The Reformation and the Visual Arts (1993), The New Objectivity (1994) and Public Monuments: Art in Political Bondage, 1870-1997 (Reaktion, 1998).
Vilem Flusser was born in Prague in 1920. After emigrating to Brazil and then to France, he embarked on an influential career as a lecturer and writer on language, design and communication. He died in 1991.
Also available from Reaktion by Vilem Flusser is The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design.
Clive Scott is Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and has published several books on French poetry, including The Poetics of French Poetry (1998).
Mitchell Merback is Assistant Professor of Art History at Depauw University, Indiana.
John Hay is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. One of Britain’s leading military historians, he has written over eighty books, including: Maps and Politics (Reaktion, 1996), Why Wars Happen (Reaktion, 1998), Britain since the Seventies (Reaktion, 2004), War since 1945 (Reaktion, 2004), Altered States: America since the Sixties (2004), all published by Reaktion.
Alec Marsh is Professor of English, Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania. He has written extensively on Ezra Pound and is President of the Ezra Pound Society. He is also the author of Money and Modernity: Pound, Williams, and The Spirit of Jefferson (1998).
Paul Greenhalgh is Deputy Curator, Department of Ceramics and Glass, at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Richard C. Hall is Professor of History at Georgia Southwestern State University. He is the author of The Balkan Wars 1912-1913: Prelude to the First World War (2003), Consumed by War: European Conflict in the 20th Century (2009) and Balkan Breakthrough, The Battle of Dobro Pole 1918 (2010).
Gönül Dönmez-Colin is a film scholar specializing in the cinemas of the Middle East and Central Asia. Among her recent books are Women, Islam and Cinema (Reaktion Books, 2004), Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Filmmakers from the Middle East and Central Asia (2006) and The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East (ed.) (2007). And Turkish Cinema (Reaktion Books, 2008),