Nandini Chandra is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Hawai’i, Mānoa. Her book The Classic Popular: Amar Chitra Katha (1967–2007) was published by Yoda Press in 2008. She has published widely on Indian comics, childhood and youth subcultures, the neoliberal university, and Hindi literary modernity.

Sharmani Patricia Gabriel is Professor of English at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya. Her work is situated at the intersections of literary studies, postcolonial theory, and cultural studies, with a focus on cultural identity and issues of diaspora, difference, representation, and power. She is Editor-in-Chief of SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English and serves on the editorial board of several journals and book series, including "Asian Children's Literature and Film in a Global Age: Local, National and Transnational Trajectories", Palgrave Macmillan: London & New York, 2020.

(From https://biography.omicsonline.org/malaysia/university-of-malaya/dr-sharmani-patricia-do-thomas-gabriel-1436884 )

Dr Becky is Programme Director of the new MA Digital Literacies, Culture and Education and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is also a leading scholar in the emerging field of children’s film scholarship, focusing on gender and the representation of children and childhood in international films for children. Her research is situated within interdisciplinary studies of literacies and particularly focuses on the relationship between the digital texts children engage with and those that they create.

(From:https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/people/academic/becky-parry)

Shilpa Ranande is an Animator, filmmaker, illustrator, designer and academician. Her most recent animation film, ‘The World of Goopi and Bagha’ (‘Goopi Gawaiyaa Bagha Bajaiyaa’) premiered at the 39th Toronto International Film Festival

(From http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/shilpa/)

Amir Ali Nojoumian is an associate professor of English Literature and Critical Theory at Shahid Beheshti University. He completed his MA and PhD studies in the UK at Leicester University during the 1990s. His doctorate focused on the philosophy of literature through readings of Jacques Derrida on literature and theology. Dr. Nojoumian is also a member of an interdiscplinary research group called the “Tehran Semiotics Circle”.

(From: http://facultymembers.sbu.ac.ir/nojoumian/)

Dr Aneesh Barai is an interdisciplinary researcher working on cultural representations of education, and connections between education history and philosophy with literature and cinema, particularly children’s literature, film and television. His research interest includes, early twentieth century cultural representations of shifts in education, including in children’s literature, modernist literature and cinema in the period. Also, Youth activism relating to pacifism, climate crisis and LGBTQIA+ youths, in children’s film, television and computer games (e.g. Howl’s Moving Castle, Steven Universe, She-Ra, Final Fantasy VII).

(From https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/people/academic/aneesh-barai)

Radhika Menon, Publishing Director, Tulika Books, India. Radhika is the brain and spirit behind Tulika. The motivation for setting it up was both her passion for the print medium itself and the creative possibilities of children’s books – possibilities of ‘bridging the gap between knowledge and imagination’ as she puts it. She took the pioneering plunge in 1996 and the rest, as they say, is history! Radhika’s commitment to creating multilingual books that are inclusive in every respect has been a rich and insightful learning experience for the whole team, and sets the tone for everything that bears the crow logo. Very hands-on as a publisher, she is deeply involved in the editing, visualising, designing and marketing of the books.

(From: https://www.tulikabooks.com/info/team)

Priya Kuriyan is a children’s book illustrator, comic book artist and an animator. She has directed educational films for the Sesame street show (India) and the Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI). She has illustrated numerous children’s books for many Indian publisher’s and her most recent books include "Hey Diddle Diddle", "The Miracle on Sunderbaag Street" and "Hot Tea and Warm Rugs".

(From: https://www.scbwi.org/members-public/priya-kuriyan)

Payal Dhar is an author of middle-grade and young-adult fiction. She is also a freelance journalist on science, technology and society.

(https://payaldhar.com/)

Siddharth Pandey is a writer, photographer and curator hailing from Shimla Himalayas, currently based in Delhi NCR. He has a PhD in English and Materiality Studies from the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK (2019), as well as a MPhil (2013) from the same institution. Pandey’s first book titled Fossil was published under the aegis of this project in August 2021, as the only Asian artist from a selection of 40 commissioned writers from all over the world. At present, he is researching his hometown Shimla for two new histories.

Dr Nozomi Uematsu is a Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield, in the School of East Asian Studies. She is a literary scholar both in Japanese and English literature and culture, including work on contemporary women’s writing, children’s literature and animation. Her research interests include gender and neoliberalism, 3.11 literature, and the pedagogies of happiness and self-esteem.