Dan Wylie is Associate Professor of English at Rhodes University in South Africa. He is the author of several books, including Myth of Iron: Shaka in History (2006), Toxic Belonging?: Identity and Ecology in Southern Africa (2008) and Elephant (Reaktion, 2008).
Katarzyna J. Cwiertka is Chair and Professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University. She is the author of Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity (Reaktion, 2006) and the editor of Critical Readings on Food in East Asia (2012), Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War: Food in Twentieth-century Korea (Reaktion, 2012) and Food and War in Mid-Twentieth-Century East Asia (2013).
Oleg Tarasov is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Cultural History of the Institute of Slavic Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences), Moscow. He is the author of Icon and Devotion (2002) and Framing Russian Art (2011), both published by Reaktion Books.
David Treece is a translator, researcher and teacher of Brazilian popular music, literature and culture at King’s College London, where he has been Camoens Professor of Portuguese since 2005.
Claire Roberts is a scholar and curator of Asian art. She is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Adelaide and has held fellowships at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institution. Formerly Senior Curator of Asian Arts and Design at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, she has curated exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Queensland Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and the Beijing World Art Museum at the China Millennium Monument. She has published widely on Chinese visual culture, including Friendship in Art: Fou Lei and Huang Binhong (2010) and Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture (2012, as editor).
Michael Newman is Senior Lecturer at Central St Martins School of Art, London.
Colin Davies is Professor in the Department of Architecture at London Metropolitan University. He is the author of numerous architectural publications including High-tech Architecture (1990).
Raymond Furness is former Chair of German at St Andrew’s University, Scotland. He is author or editor of many books on German literature and culture, including A Companion to Twentieth-century German Literature (1991), Zarathustra’s Children (2000) and On Heligoland (2008).
Francesca Tarocco is a lecturer in Buddhist Studies at the University of Manchester.
Dean Crawford is Visiting Associate Professor of English at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, and is the author of The Lay of the Land (1987).