Mark A. Cheetham is a professor of art history at the University of Toronto. His book Artwriting, Nation, and Cosmopolitanism in Britain: The "Englishness" of English Art Theory since the Eighteenth Century is forthcoming from Ashgate. He recently co-curated the exhibition JACK CHAMBERS: the light from the darkness, silver paintings and film work for Museum London (2011).
Mieke Bal is Academy Professor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a cofounder of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Her many books include Loving Yusuf: Conceptual Travels from Present to Past, also published by the University of Chicago Press.