Ted Gott is Senior Curator of International Art at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. He is the author of the groundbreaking study The Enchanted Stone: The Graphic Worlds of Odilon Redon (1990).
Nicolaas Mink is Urban Sustainable Foods Fellow at Butler University, Indianapolis.
Nigel Whiteley (1953-2010) was Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Lancaster. He is the author of Pop Design (1987), and co-editor of The Lamp of Memory: Ruskin, Tradition and Architecture (1992).
Adam Watt is Associate Professor of French at the University of Exeter. He is a member of the Equipe Proust at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. His previous books include Reading in Proust’s ‘A la recherche’: ‘Le Délire de la lecture’ (2009) and The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust (2011).
Cynthia D. Bertelsen is a culinary historian and photographer based in Blacksburg, Virginia. Author of the culinary history blog Gherkins & Tomatoes, and numerous articles on food and food history, in 2011 she won the Julia Child Independent Scholar grant awarded by the International Association of Culinary Professionals.
John Fletcher is a qualified veterinarian who lives and works with his wife on a deer farm in Auchtermuchty, Scotland. His previous books include Fletcher’s Game: A Vet’s Life with Scotland’s Deer (2003) and Gardens of Earthly Delight: the History of Deer Parks (2011).
Robin Cormack is Professor Emeritus in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, University of London. His books include Writing in Gold (1985) and The Byzantine Eye (1989) and Icons (1989).
Christopher Frayling is Rector of the Royal College of Art, London, Chairman of the Arts Council of England, and is well known as a historian, critic, and award-winning radio and TV broadcaster. His books include Spaghetti Westerns (1980) and Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula (1991).
Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at Glasgow University and has written and lectured widely on Latin American culture and politics.
Marianella Yanes is a Venezuelan writer, journalist and playwright. She wrote soap operas for a number of Latin American television channels and worked in theatre for many years.