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. 

Lisa Lowe is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and affiliated with the programs in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She is the author of books on orientalism, colonialism, and migration, including Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell 1991), Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke 1996) and The Intimacies of Four Continents (Duke 2015), and is currently at work on a project titled Colonial Histories of the Present.

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.