Massimo Fusillo is Professor of Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature at the University of L'Aquila; he is also a member of the Academia Europaea. He is the author of The Fetish: Literature, Cinema, Visual Art and the coeditor of Imaginary Films in Literature.

Marina Grishakova is Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and a member of the Academia Europaea. She is the author of The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction and the coeditor of Intermediality and Storytelling and Narrative Complexity: Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution.