Brian Bernards is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, specializing in Sinophone and Southeast Asian literature and cinema, inter-Asia cultural studies, and translingual postcolonial studies. He is author of Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature (2015/2016) and a co-editor of Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader (2013). His articles have appeared in journals such as Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, positions: asia critique, Asian Cinema, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Postcolonial Studies, and Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature.

Elmo Gonzaga is Associate Professor and Director of the MA in Intercultural Studies Programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His interests straddle Southeast Asian, Inter-Asian, and South-South film, media, and urban cultures. He is the author of Monsoon Marketplace: Capitalism, Media, and Modernity (2023). His work has appeared in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, South East Asia Research, and the Journal of Asian Studies.