Griselda Pollock is a feminist art historian and curator. Now Professor emerita of Social and Critical Histories of Art at the University of Leeds, she also created and directed the transdisciplinary Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (2001–). She is the 2020 Laureate of the Holberg Prize and in 2023 received the CAA Life-time Achievement Award for Writing on Art. Recent publications include Mary Cassatt (2022), Killing Men & Dying Women: Imagining Difference in 1950s New York Painting (2022), WOMAN IN ART: Helen Rosenau’s "Little Book" of 1944 (2023) and Medium & Memory (2023).

Sophie Orlando is a researcher and an author living in Paris. She is associate professor of art history at The Villa Arson. Previous books include British Black Art: Debates on the Western Art History (2016) and Conceptualism: Intersectional Readings, International Framings (2019).