Berenika Szymanski-Düllis Professor in Theatre Studies with a focus on transnational theatre history at LMU Munich, Germany, and leads the research project T-MIGRANTS funded by the European Research Council. She is also the editor of the peer-reviewed journalForum Modernes Theater. Berenika's research is characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach and situated at the crossroads of theatre, history and society. Recent publications includeTheatre, Globalization and the Cold War(2017), and Methoden der Theaterwissenschaft(2020), both co-edited with Christopher Balme.

Lisa Skwirblies is Assistant Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She has been working as a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project T-Migrants at the LMU Munich. Her research focusses on postcolonial and decolonial approaches towards theatre historiography. Recent publications include Theaterwissenschaft postkolonial/dekolonial (transcript 2022, co-edited with Azadeh Sharifi) and 'Colonial Theatrical' in the Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance (2020, edited by Gluhovic et al.).