E. J. White
E.J. White is an English professor at Stony Brook University. Her research focuses on the future of textual culture in the internet age and the history of the English language. She is the author of The Republic of Games: Textual Culture Between Old Books and New Media (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2018).
Rich Cohen
New York Times bestselling author Rich Cohen is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone and the author of Israel Is Real, Tough Jews and the widely acclaimed memoir Sweet and Low. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine and Best American Essays. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, three sons and dog.
Harlan Lebo
Harlan Lebo is a senior fellow at the Center for the Digital Future in the USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism, a communications consultant, and a non-fiction author who writes on issues in the sciences, the humanities, society, and digital technology.
Richard Ovenden
Richard Ovenden OBE is the 25th Bodley’s Librarian (since the post was set up in 1600) at the Bodelian Library in Oxford, a post he holds together with being Head of Gardens, Libraries, & Museums (GLAM), and the Helen Hamlyn Director of the University Libraries (the senior executive officer of the Bodleian Libraries). He was awarded […]
Ayala Fader
Ayala Fader is professor of anthropology at Fordham University. She is the author of Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn (Princeton).
Esther Woolfson
Esther Woolfson grew up in Glasgow and studied Chinese at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Edinburgh University. She has been the recipient of a Scottish Arts Council Travel Grant and a Writer’s Bursary. Her book, Field Notes from a Hidden City, was shortlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize for Nature and Travel […]
Etan Ilfeld
Etan Ilfeld is an Israeli-American chess master and inventor of Diving Chess. He has a physics degree from Stanford University.
Jim Al-Khalili
Jim Al-Khalili is professor of physics at the University of Surrey. He is one of the UK’s best-known science communicators: as well as hosting The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4, he has presented several BBC TV documentaries. Image © Sebastian Nevols
Panikos Panayi
Panikos Panayi was born in London to Greek Cypriot immigrants and grew up in the multicultural city that was developing during the 1960s and 1970s. A leading authority on the history of migration, he is professor of European history at De Montfort University.
Philipp Ther
Philipp Ther is professor of Central European history at the University of Vienna.
Amelia Gentleman
Amelia Gentleman is a reporter for the Guardian. She was named Journalist of the Year at the 2019 British Journalism Awards and won the 2018 Paul Foot journalism award for her reportage on the Windrush scandal.
Christopher Foster
Dr Christopher Foster is Stanley Ho Junior Research Fellow in Chinese Studies at Pembroke College, University of Oxford.