Jorunn S. Gjerden is an independent researcher of French literature who recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship thematizing Sara Baartman. Her publications include articles and a monograph on ethics and aesthetics, modernist literature, performativity, and postcoloniality.

Kari Jegerstedt is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Bergen. She has published several articles and edited volumes on gender and feminist theory, postcolonialism, psychoanalysis and Scandinavian, British and South-African Literature.

Zeljka Svrljuga is Professor of American Literature at the University of Bergen. She has published a number of articles and a monograph on the aesthetics of suffering and essays on African American and Caribbean literature.