Nathan Snaza is Associate Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond, USA. He is the author of Animate Literacies: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism (2019) and Tendings: Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man (2024).

Aparna Mishra Tarc is Associate Professor of Culture, Language and Teaching at the Faculty of Education at York University, Canada. She is the author of Literacy of the Other: Renarrating Humanity (2015) and Pedagogy in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee (Routledge, 2020).