Elisabeth Bekers is Professor of British and Postcolonial Literature at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. She researches literature from Africa and its diaspora, and currently focuses on black British women's writing. Her publications include the co-edited volumes Transcultural Modernities: Narrating Africa in Europe (2009) and Ecrire Bruxelles/Brussels Schrijven (2016).

Maggie Ann Bowers is a Senior Lecturer in Literatures in English at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Her research covers contemporary postcolonial studies, focusing particularly on Native American studies and comparative multi-ethnic literatures of North America. She is the author of Magic(al) Realism (2004). Her recent research has examined the links between storytelling, ritual, and law and sovereignty in Native American writing.

Sissy Helff is an anglicist at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, with a broad range of interests in Anglophone world literature, postcolonial and transcultural studies, visual culture, history and politics. Her recent book, Unreliable Truths: Transcultural Homeworlds in Indian Women's Fiction of the Diaspora (2012), is an overview of Indian diasporic women writing from around the world.