Doctoral student at the University of Western Ontario, Canada

Director of the Centre for Research on Cuba, University of Nottingham, UK

Saba Ahmed is a lecturer teaching healthcare management and works as a dissertation supervisor. The author has a wealth of experience in supporting undergraduates with completing dissertation projects. Her main role is working as one of the Pharmacy Professional Development Leads, teaching on Biology, Microbiology and Healthcare modules. Occasionally, she locums as a pharmacist.

Nina Janz is a military historian and lecturer. She studied archival science and modern history in Marburg, Hagen, and Haifa, and completed her doctorate through research conducted in Hamburg, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, and Washington, D.C. Her work and teaching focus on military history, war studies, mourning practices, personal war experiences of soldiers, and the politics of remembrance of the Second World War in Europe.

Dagmar Reichardt ist Professorin für Transkulturelle Studien an der Lettischen Kulturakademie in Riga, hat zahlreiche italienische Autor*innen ins Deutsche übersetzt, darunter Werke von Cesare Cases, Pier Paolo Pasolini und Dacia Maraini. Sie ist zudem Mitglied des Exil PEN – PEN Zentrum deutschsprachiger Autoren im Ausland und wurde für ihre wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten mehrfach ausgezeichnet. Dagmar Reichardt gründete 2016 die Buchreihe Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) und erhielt für ihre Übersetzungen und wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten mehrere Preise, darunter den Übersetzerpreis des italienischen Außenministeriums. Der neue Band Le tante traduzioni dell’opera di Dacia Maraini (dt.: „Die vielen Übersetzungen des Werks von Dacia Maraini“, 2024) der TSIL-Reihe erscheint im Herbst 2024.

Michael Fenwick Macnamara retired as a senior official from the Australian Civil Service in 2005 and has since been engaged in the pursuit of British Indian history, with a focus on the senior administrators of the Indian Civil Service.  A PhD in British Indian history, he is a member of the Kipling Society, the Indian Military Historical Society and of the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia.

S Satish Kumar holds a doctoral degree in Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies from the University of Georgia, and graduate degrees in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University. They will be visiting faculty in the Department of English at Ashoka University this year. Their book Counterpoints in Fractal Modernities: Essays in Plural Postcolonialities is forthcoming with Peter Lang.

Neil Archer is Senior Lecturer in Film at Keele University (UK). He is the author of eight previous books, including Twenty-First-Century Hollywood: Rebooting the System (2019) and The Social Network: Youth Film 2.0 (2022).

Prof. Judy Baumel-Schwartz is the Director of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research and Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.