Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. He works on travel writing, colonial history, postcolonial literature and the cultures of slavery. His books include Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity (2000) and Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures (2005).
Andrew Leak is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at UCL. He has written extensively on Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, Haiti, and Georges Perec. He has translated Perec into English, resulting in the publication of A Man Asleep (1990) and Lieux (2001).
Richard Phillips is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Sheffield. His books include Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure (1997), Sex, Politics and Empire (2006), Fieldwork for Human Geography (2012) and Creative Writing for Social Research (forthcoming).