Kobena Mercer is Charles P. Stevenson Chair in Art History and Humanities at Bard College

Amanda Hopkinson is a writer, translator, curator and critic, whose area of speciality is Latin America.

She is also International Literature Officer for the Arts Council of England and a Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University.

Paul Hill, formerly curator of Kingston Upon Thames Museum in Surrey, is well known as a lecturer, author and expert on Anglo-Saxon and Norman history and military archaeology, and he has written several books on these subjects, among them The Age of Athelstan: Britain's Forgotten History, The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great and The Anglo-Saxons at War 800-1066.