Padma Rangarajan is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, where she specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and colonial epistemologies. She is the author of Imperial Babel: Translation, Exoticism, and the Long Nineteenth Century (Fordham 2014). Her articles have appeared in English Literary History, English Language Notes, Studies in Scottish Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Romanticism, Keats-Shelley Journal, and Romantic Circles. 

Saree Makdisi is Professor and Chair of English at UCLA. His most recent book is Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (University of California Press, 2022). He is also the author of Reading William Blake (Cambridge University Press, 2015); Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2014); Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (Norton, 2010); William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (University of Chicago Press, 2003); and Romantic Imperialism(Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Grégory Pierrot is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Stamford where he teaches American and African American literature. He is the author of The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture (UGA, 2019), co-editor with Marlene Daut and Marion Rohrleitner of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology (UVA, 2021), translator of Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli's Free Jazz/Black Power (Mississippi, 2015). Most recently, he wrote introductions to two short story collections published at L'Harmattan: Toussaint Louverture et après: une anthologie, and Échos de Saint Domingue vol.1. He also co-translated into French (with Jean-Baptiste Naudy) The Colour of Forgetting, a novel by Merle Collins, and Brent Hayes Edwards' The Practice of Diaspora for Éditions Rot-Bo-Krik.