Torsten Schmiedeknechtis a Reader in Architecture at the University of Liverpool. His research interests include the representation of architecture in print media, rationalism in architecture and architectural competitions. He is the co-editor ofModernism and the Professional Architecture Journal,The RationalistReader,Rationalist Traces,An Architect's Guide to FameandFame and Architecture. In 2016 he was the recipient of an RIBA Research Trust Award for his projectThe representation of Modern Architecture through illustrations in postwar British Children's Literature,which resulted in a co-authored paper ('Absent Architectures: Post-War Housing in British Children's Picture Books') with Emma Hayward, and the exhibition Building Children's Worlds at RIBA North in Liverpool in Spring 2019.

Jill Ruddis a Professor of Literature in the English Department at the University of Liverpool, where, amongst other things, she teaches medieval literature and children's literature. Chiefly a medievalist with an interest in eco-criticism, her publications includeGreenery: Ecocritical Readings of Late Medieval English Literature(MUP, 2007) and various articles and chapters on mice, clouds, flowers and plants. She has also written onSir Gawain and the Green KnightandThe Secret Gardenand in the past, on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short stories. She has supervised postgraduate theses on issue-led children's literature written for older children readers and young adults.

Emma Haywardis a secondary school English teacher and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests include curriculum design and 20th- and 21st-century literature - in particular, the relationship between literature and the built environment, verbal-visual narratives and postmodernism/late postmodernism. She has published on children's literature and the built environment. Her publications include 'Absent Architectures: Post-War Housing in British Children's Picture Books, 1960-present' and '"Horrible muddy English places": Downriver, Swandown, and the Mock-Heroic Tradition'.