Joe Andrew is Professor Emeritus at Keele University. He has published over 25 books, and hundreds of other pieces, mostly on nineteenth-century Russian literature, but he has also written on twentieth-century Russian literature, as well as Russian and British film.

Katharine Hodgson is Professor in Russian at the University of Exeter. Her recent work has been on post-Soviet changes to the canon of twentieth-century Russian poetry. She is now exploring the ways in which poets defined their poetic affinities and identities during the Soviet period.

Robert Reid is an Honorary Fellow of Keele University where he was formerly Reader in Russian. He has published widely on Russian literature. His most recent publication is Tolstoi: Art and Influence, edited with Joe Andrew (Brill, 2023).

Alexandra Smith is Reader in Russian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She has published extensively on Russian literature and culture. Most recently she has co-edited a book on film adaptations of Russian literature: Film Adaptations of Russian Literature: Dialogue and Authorship.