Andrew Bennett is Professor of English at the Department of English, University of Bristol, UK. His research focuses on British Romantic literature and on twentieth-century and contemporary Anglophone writing. He has published on a wide variety of topics, including poetics and literary theory, literary ignorance, literature and suicide, literary posterity, and letters and epistolary poetics. His writing has brought insight into the works of many different authors, for example William Wordsworth, John Keats, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath, David Foster Wallace, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Yiyun Li. His most recent books are The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro(as editor; Cambridge UP, 2023) and, with Nicholas Royle, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (Routledge, 2023; sixth edition) and This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (Routledge, 2024; second edition). He is currently completing a monograph with the working title Keats's Letters: A Critical Study and is also working on a book on Elizabeth Bowen’s short fiction.

Hilde Hasselgård is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the British-American unit within the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, Norway. Her fields of expertise include modern English grammar, text linguistics, phraseology, corpus linguistics, contrastive linguistics, systemic functional linguistics, English as a foreign language, and learner corpus research. She has also co-authored textbooks in English grammar for the tertiary level and several textbooks for the English subject in Norwegian secondary school. Professor Hasselgård is highly familiar with English Studies in Sweden, having served as an external expert in several quality assurance processes for Swedish universities over the years, and she is keenly interested in discussions about the future direction of English Studies in Norway, and also more broadly in Scandinavia. She has been involved in numerous research projects with colleagues across Europe and is currently serving as the coordinator for English language and linguistics teaching at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo. 

Hans Malmström is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Division of Language and Communication within the Department of Communication and Learning in Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He conducts research at the intersection of applied linguistics and learning. His research is primarily concerned with aspects of second language acquisition (especially academic and disciplinary vocabulary) in academic contexts where English is used as the medium of instruction, and the integration communication and language, exploring how language and communication potentially affects learning within a discipline. He is the Principal Investigator of three ongoing research projects funded by the Swedish Research Council and STINT (the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education). Professor Malmström is Series Editor (together with Diane Pecorari, University of Leeds) for Routledge Studies in English Medium Instruction. He also Co-edits the Journal of English-Medium Instruction (John Benjamins).