Scott Peeples is Professor of English at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. His previous books include The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City (2020) and The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe (2004).
Jamie Sexton is Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies at Northumbria University. His publications include Freak Scenes: American Indie Cinema and Indie Music Cultures (2022) and Anonymous Sounds: Library Music and Screen Cultures in the 1960s and 1970s (2025).
Lee Raye is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University, a Research Officer at Bangor University and a Fellow of the Linnean Society. They are the author of The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife (2023).
Mary Pickering is Professor of Modern European History at San Jose State University. She is the author of the three-volume Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography.
Roman Hautala is Docent in the Department of History at the University of Oulu, Finland. He is the author of Crusaders, Missionaries and Eurasian Nomads in the 13th–14th Centuries (2017) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of the Mongols and Central-Eastern Europe (2021).
Tim Entwisle is Honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne and a former Director of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and Botanic Gardens of Sydney. He is the author of Evergreen: The Botanical Life of a Plant Punk (2022).
Bjørn Berge is an architect and author. His books include The Ecology of Building Materials (2000) and Nowherelands: An Atlas of Vanished Countries 1840–1975 (2017).
Katie Barclay is a historian of love and relationships, who has published widely in the field of the history of emotions, gender history, law and family life. She is the author of seven books, including Loneliness in World History (2025). She is Professor of History at Macquarie University, Sydney.
Jo Labanyi is Professor Emerita of Spanish at New York University. Her recent books include A Companion to Spanish Cinema (2013), Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History (2016) and Modern Literatures in Spain (2022).
Paolo Cherchi Usai is Senior Curator-at-Large of the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. His previous books include The Death of Cinema (2001) and The Art of Film Projection (2019).