Joanne Finkelstein teaches sociology and cultural studies at Monash University. She is the author of Dining Out: A Sociology of Modern Manners, The Fashioned Self, and Slaves of Chic: An A-Z of Consumer Pleasures.
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, where he is directing a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council on the history
Kavita Krishnan is a communist feminist activist. She is politburo member of the CPI(ML) Liberation, and secretary of the All India Progressive Women's Association (AIPWA).
Pushpita Alam is the managing editor of Bengal Lights Books and in charge of the Dhaka Translation Center, both based at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.
