Howard Chiang is Lai Ho & Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies, Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, and Director of the Center for Taiwan Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also an Honorary Chair Professor and Yushan Scholar at the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies at National Chung Hsing University.

Alison Groppe teaches modern Chinese and Sinophone literature and film in the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon. Her recent publication with Routledge includes chapters in The Southern Discourse in Sinophone Literature: Moving Borders (Routledge, 2025).