Gay Watson is the author of The Resonance of Emptiness: A Buddhist Inspiration for a Contemporary Psychotherapy (2002), Beyond Happiness: Deepening the Dialogue Between Buddhism, Psychotherapy and the Mind Sciences (2007) and A Philosophy of Emptiness (Reaktion, 2014). She lives in Devon and California.
Jennifer L. Shaw is Professor of Art History at Sonoma State University, California. Her previous books include Reading Claude Cahun’s Disavowals (2013) and Dream States: Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism and the Fantasy of France (2002).
Frida Beckman is Professor in Comparative Literature at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, Sweden. She is the author of Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present (2016) and Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality (2013) and editor of Deleuze and Sex (2011).
Peter Adey is Professor of Human Geography, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London. His previous titles include Air (Reaktion, 2014), Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects (2010) and Mobility (2009).
Damien Stone is an archaeologist who lives in Sydney, Australia. His books include The Hittites: Lost Civilizations (Reaktion Books, 2023).
Kaori O' Connor is an anthropologist at University College London, author of The English Breakfast (2013) and winner of the Sophie Coe Prize for Food History (2009).
Stephen Barber is Professor in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University, Surrey. His books include Fragments of the European City (Reaktion, 1995), Projected Cities: Cinema and Urban Space (Reaktion, 2000), Tokyo Vertigo (2001), Extreme Europe (2001), The Art of Destruction: The Films of the Vienna Action Group (2004), Jean Genet (Reaktion, 2005), Abandoned Images: Film and Film’s End (2011) and Performance Projections (2014). The Times has praised his work as ‘brilliant and profound’.
Lucy M. Long is a folklorist, food studies scholar and Director of the non-profit Center for Food and Culture in Ohio.
Claudia Mesch is Professor of Art History at Arizona State University. Her books include Modern Art at the Berlin Wall (2009) and Art and Politics: A Small History of Art for Social Change since 1945 (2013). She is a founding editor of the Journal of Surrealism and the Americas and lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
Bernadine Barnes is Professor of Renaissance Art History at Wake Forest University, North Carolina. Her previous publications include Michelangelo’s Last Judgment: The Renaissance Response (1998) and Michelangelo in Print: Reproductions as Response in the Sixteenth Century (2010).