Anindita Banerjee is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University and a faculty fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. Her recent publications include South of the Future and Border Environments.

Sherryl Vint is Distinguished Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and English at the University of California, Riverside, where she founded the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science program. She is the Managing Editor of Science Fiction Studies and has published widely on science fiction, including Biopolitical Futures and Programming the Future.

David M. Higgins is Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Chair of the Department of Humanities and Communication at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide. He is the author of Reverse Colonization, which won the 2021 Science Fiction Research Association Book Award.

Jordan S. Carroll is the author of Speculative Whiteness and Reading the Obscene, which won the 2020-2021 MLA Prize for Independent Scholars.