Judith Jack Halberstam
Judith Jack Halberstam is Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Halberstam works in the areas of popular, visual and queer culture with an emphasis on subcultures. Halberstam is the author of three books: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke University Press, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke University Press, 1998) and In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (New York University Press, 2005). Halberstam was also the co–author with Del LaGrace Volcano of a photo/essay book, The Drag King Book (Serpent’s Tail, 1999), and with Ira Livingston of an anthology, Posthuman Bodies (Indiana University Press, 1995). 
Halberstam regularly speaks on visual culture and recently wrote catalogue essays for Austrian Inez Doujak, and Australian performance group, The Kingpins. At present Halberstam is finishing one book called Notes on Failure and beginning another on Bats for the acclaimed Animal series from Reaktion books.
Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright is one of Australia’s best known Indigenous authors and is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. A writer, researcher and social commentator, she has been widely published in magazines and journals. She has worked for many years on campaigns for Aboriginal land rights, Indigenous self–government and constitutional change in the Northern Territory, and for the prevention of Indigenous injury. 
Her books include Grog War (Magabala Books, 1997, 2009), a study of the problems associated with the excessive availability of alcohol in the outback town of Tennant Creek, and she was the editor and compiler of Take Power (Jukurrpa Books, 1998), an anthology of essays and stories exploring Aboriginal land rights in Central Australia. Her novel Plains of Promise (University of Queensland Press, 1997) was short–listed for the Commonwealth Prize, The Age Book of the Year Award, and the NSW Premier’s Award for Fiction.
Her novel Carpentaria (Giramondo, 2006; Constable and Robinson, 2008 and; Atria, 2009) won the 2007 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, the Victorian Premier’s Award for Fiction, the Queensland Premier’s Award for Fiction, and the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year.
Alexis also holds the position of Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Western Sydney, Writing and Society Research Group, College of the Arts.
David M Berry
Dr David Berry is a Lecturer in Media Studies in the Department of Political and Cultural Studies at Swansea University, UK. His research is particularly focused on theories of digital code/software and data visualisation. 
David is a member of Swansea’s Centre for Study of Politics and Culture (C–SCAP) and has published widely on technology, media, and politics; more recently a monograph on free culture entitled Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source (Pluto Press, 2008) and, Software Studies: Understanding Code and Software in the Digital Economy (forthcoming from Palgrave).
Arzoo Osanloo
Dr Arzoo Osanloo is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington’s Department of Anthropology and the Law, Societies and Justice Program. 
Formerly an immigration and asylum/refugee attorney, Arzoo conducts research and teaches courses focusing on the intersection of law and culture, including human rights, refugee rights and identity, and women’s rights in Muslim societies. Her geographical focus is on the Middle East, especially Iran.
Arzoo has published in various journals, including American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology and Iranian Studies. Her book, The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran (2009), is published by Princeton University Press.
She is currently working on a new project that considers the Islamic mandate of forgiveness, compassion, and mercy in Iran’s criminal sanctioning system, jurisprudential scholarship and everyday acts among pious Muslims.
Timothy Campbell
Dr Timothy Campbell is an Associate Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University, New York.
Timothy is the translator of Roberto Esposito’s Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) and the recently released Communitas: The Origin of Destiny of Community (Stanford University Press, 2009). 
Dr Campbell is the author of Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi (University of Minnesota Press, 2006) and Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben (Guerini, 2009) as well as co–editor with Adam Sitze of Biopolitics: A Reader which is forthcoming from Duke.
His current project is a study of the figure of grace and exception in the cinema of Rossellini and Antonini.
Karen Jackson
Karen Jackson is a Yorta Yorta, Barap Barap woman who is strongly committed to Indigenous issues, particularly in Victoria. She is the Indigenous Services Programs Officer at Victoria University of Technology. 
Karen has spent most of her working life with government agencies. Her work has involved working directly with Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander individuals, families and community organisations and developing inter–departmental and cross–sectoral policy and programs that are culturally appropriate and inclusive of Indigenous values.
Karen is a firm believer in the ideals of self–determination and self–management for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people. She is also fully committed to the ongoing struggle for recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and rights to land and to the process of reconciliation.