Bran Nicol is Professor of English Literature at the University of Surrey. His books include The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction (2009).
Louise Miller is an independent scholar based in Kent, UK.
John Miller is a lecturer in nineteenth-century literature at the University of Sheffield, UK and author of Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Ecology and Identity in Victorian Adventure Fiction (2012).
Fred Hageneder is the author of many books on the natural and cultural history of trees. He lives in South Wales at the edge of the Black Mountains.
Nuit Banai is an art historian, critic and curator who teaches in the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna. She contributed to the catalogue accompanying the Pompidou Centre Exhibition Yves Klein: Corps, Couleur, Immatériel in 2006-07, and is a regular contributor to Artforum International magazine.
David C. Sutton is Director of Research Projects at the University of Reading.
David Stephen Calonne has taught and lectured at numerous universities, including Harvard and Oxford, and is the author and editor of numerous books, including William Saroyan: My Real Work is Being , Bebop Buddhist Ecstasy: Saroyan’s Influence on Kerouac and the Beats with an introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski (Reaktion, 2012). He has edited several collections of Bukowski’s writings, including Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook (2008), Absence of the Hero (2010) and More Notes of A Dirty Old Man (2011).
Ben Russell is Curator of Mechanical Engineering at the Science Museum, London.
Terry Satsuki Milhaupt (1959–2012) was an independent art historian based in New York, a guest curator and an internationally recognized expert on Japanese textiles. She contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogues and publications, including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (2010).
David Maclagan is a retired university lecturer and art therapist. based in Yorkshire. He has published numerous articles on Outsider art, art therapy and image-based psychology, and is the author of Creation Myths: Man’s Introduction to the World (1977), and Psychological Aesthetics: Painting, Feeling and Making Sense (2001) and Outsider Art (Reaktion, 2009).