Nicoletta Vallorani is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Milan, Italy. She has published on colonialism and postcolonialism, on urban geographies and on the intersections between Crime Fiction and Migration Studies. She recently contributed to The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction (2019). With Simona Bertacco, she co-authored The Relocation of Culture: Translations, Migrations, Borders (Bloomsbury, 2021; prefaced by H. K. Bhabha). She is the Head of the School of Journalism Walter Tobagi and co-directs the online journal Altre Modernità.

Simona Bertacco is Professor of Postcolonial and Translation Studies at the University of Louisville, USA, where she teaches courses on the global and translational humanities. Her research focuses on Caribbean literatures, gender and translation studies. Her most recent publications include: The Relocation of Culture: Translation, Migration, Borders, co-authored with Nicoletta Vallorani. Foreword by H. Bhabha. (Bloomsbury 2021), Time, Space, Matter in Translation, co-edited with P. Beattie and T. Soldat-Jaffe (Routledge 2022), and is currently is co-editing the second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation (forthcoming in 2027).

William Boelhower, is Adams Professor Emeritus at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, USA, and currently a member of the Department of Linguistic and Comparative Literatures, Ca'foscari University, Venice. He has recently published: co-editor, "Literature and Migration." Annali di Ca' Foscari, Serie Occidentale 54 (September 2020); Immigrant Autobiography in the United States. A Revised and Enlarged Edition (2021); "'Liberty or Death!' An Archaeology of the Freedom Narrative in the Age of Revolution." The New Centennial Review 22.3 (Winter 2022): 119-139; "Decolonization, diversity and accountability: The role of museums in democracies of the global north." Atlantic Studies, 21.1 (March), 2024: 14-29; "Narrating and Archiving Social Movements and Migrations," The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature (forthcoming).