Please Look After This Bear: How Paddington Became British

Melanie Ramdarshan Bold is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Children's and YA Literature Studies at the University of Glasgow, and the editor of Cambridge University Press' Young Adult Publishing and Book Culture book series. Her book Inclusive Young Adult Fiction: Authors of Colour in the United Kingdom, 2006-2016, was published by Palgrave in 2019. She co-authored The Publishing Business: A Guide to Starting Out and Getting On (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Aishwarya Subramanian is an Associate Professor of English at O.P. Jindal Global University in Haryana, India. Her research encompasses popular and genre fiction, children's literature, spatiality and postcolonial nationalisms. She serves on the editorial board of the journal Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. Some of her recent work can be found in Comparative Critical Studies, The Lion and the Unicorn, and Space and Culture, and she co-edited a special issue of International Research in Children's Literature, "Curating National Literatures", in 2019.