Stephen Quirke is Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. In his role as curator in the British Museum and then at the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology, he took a lead role in digitisation projects to deliver Egyptian Archaeology collections online.

Rita Lucarelli is Associate Professor of Egyptology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also holds the Class of 1939 Chair in Undergraduate Education and serves as Faculty Curator of Egyptology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and as Fellow in Digital Humanities.

Hany Rashwan is Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the United Arab Emirates University. His research focuses on Arabic and comparative poetics, with particular emphasis on premodern literary theory and non-Eurocentric approaches to literary criticism.