Vanessa Agnew is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and a Senior Fellow in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University, Australia.

Jonathan Lamb is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Vanderbilt University, United States.

Juliane Tomann is Head of the Imre Kertesz Kolleg's research area History in the Public Sphere at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany.