Joseph Pearson is a writer and cultural historian at New York University in Berlin. He is the voice of The Needle, one of Berlin’s most popular blogs, and a contributing arts writer for Newsweek in Berlin.
Michel Remy is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Art History at the University of Nice, France. The leading authority on British Surrealism, he has published widely on the subject and has co-curated several Surrealist exhibitions in France and England. He is the author of many books, including The Surrealist World of Desmond Morris (1991), Surrealism in Britain (1999) and On the Thirteenth Stroke of Midnight: Surrealist Poetry in Britain (2013).
Charlotte Horlyck is Lecturer in Korean Art History at SOAS, University of London, where she teaches on Korean art from pre-modern to contemporary times. She has published widely on Korean material culture.
Peter Davidson is Fellow of Campion Hall, University of Oxford. He has taught at the universities of Aberdeen, Leiden and Warwick. He is the author of a book of essays about northern culture, The Idea of North (Reaktion, 2005), Distance and Memory (2013), a collection of verse, The Palace of Oblivion (2008) and The Last of the Light: About Twilight (Reaktion, 2015).
Adam Roberts is a freelance writer and creator of the influential Invisible Paris blog, which has shown readers – both local and visiting – around an alternative Paris since 2008. His observations have featured in The Guardian, CNN and a variety of French magazines. He lives in Paris.
Dorothy Yamamoto is a poet, the co-editor of Animals on the Agenda (1998). She is author of The Boundaries of the Human in Medieval English Literature (2000) and Guinea Pig (Reaktion, 2015) .She lives in Oxford.
Christopher S. Wood is Professor in the Department of History of Art, Yale University.
Amit Srivastava is a Lecturer at the University of Adelaide who trained and practised as an architect in India. He is co-author of The Elements of Modern Architecture: Understanding Contemporary Buildings (with Antony Radford and Selen B. Morkoç, 2014).
Peter Scriver is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His books include After the Masters: Contemporary Indian Architecture (1990) and Colonial Modernities: Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon (2007).
Astronomer Lucas Ellerbroek is a researcher in comets and planet formation at the University of Amsterdam. He has written a number of popular articles on space exploration and is well known for his television appearances and TedX talks.