Trevor Curnow is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cumbria and an internationally recognized authority on wisdom. He is the author of a number of books, including Oracles of the Ancient World (2004) and Wisdom in the Ancient World (2010).
Kate Nearpass Ogden is Professor of Art History at Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey. Her essays on the artists of Yosemite Valley have appeared in Yosemite: Art of an American Icon (2006) and Yosemite and Sequoia: A Century of California National Parks (1993).
Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Beyond and Before: Progressive Rock since the 1960s (with Paul Hegarty, 2011) and American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century (with Catherine Morley, 2008).
Lisa Heldke is Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, St Peter, Minnesota. She is the author of Exotic Appetites: Ruminations of a Food Adventurer (2003).
Raymond D. Boisvert is Professor of Philosophy at Siena College, New York, and the author of I Eat: Therefore I Think (2014).
Elizabeth E. Guffey is Professor of Art and Design History at the State University of New York, Purchase, and founding editor of academic journal Design and Culture. She is the author of Drawing an Elusive Line: The Art and Career of Pierre-Paul Prud’hon (2001) and Retro: The Culture of Revival (Reaktion, 2006). She is also vice-president of the Design Studies Forum.
Andy Stafford is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Leeds. His books include Roland Barthes, Phenomenon and Myth: An Intellectual Biography (1998) and Photo-texts: Contemporary French Writing of the Photographic Image (2010).
Richard Anderson is Lecturer in Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. He is the editor and principal translator of Ludwig Hilberseimer’s Metropolisarchitecture and Selected Essays (2012) and co-author of Architecture in Print: Design and Debate in the Soviet Union, 1919–1935 (2005).
Philip Armstrong is Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies. His books include What Animals Mean (2008).