SARA AHMED is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK MIEKE BAL is Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Professor (KNAW), based at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands ELLEKE BOEHMER is the Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, UK TIMOTHY BRENNAN is Professor at the Departments of English and Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA REY CHOW is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, USA OCTAVI COMERON is an artist and also a teacher at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, Spain FIONA PROBYN-RAPSEY is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia ANDREA TETI is a Lecturer at the Department of International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, UK