Jonathan Bignell is Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading. His books include British Television Drama: Past Present and Future and A European Television History. His articles include contributions to Critical Studies in Television, the Historical Journal of Radio, Film and Television, Media History, and Screen.

Deborah Cartmell is Professor of English and Associate Pro Vice‐Chancellor for Research at De Montfort University, Leicester. She is founder and coeditor of Shakespeare (Routledge) and Adaptation (Oxford University Press) and has written on adaptations, Shakespeare, and children's literature.

Henrik Christensen is completing a PhD at Stockholm University on fictional representations of Dostoevsky in contemporary biographical novels and films.

Timothy Corrigan is Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has produced several essays on cinematic description, adaptation, and filmic speed. His most recent work includes The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker and two collections, Essays on the Essay Film and The Global Road Movie.

Melissa Croteau is Professor of Film Studies and Literature and the Film Program Director at California Baptist University. She has been teaching courses and presenting work internationally on film adaptation, film theory and history, and early modern British literature and culture for the past 20 years. Her publications include the book Re‐forming Shakespeare: Adaptations and Appropriations of the Bard in Millennial Film and Popular Culture (LAP, 2013) and a coedited volume titled Apocalyptic Shakespeare: Essays on Visions of Chaos and Revelation in Recent Film Adaptations (McFarland, 2009).

Christine Geraghty is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Publications include Now a Major Motion Picture: Film Adaptations of Literature and Drama (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), Bleak House (Palgrave/BFI, 2012), and essays on Atonement (2007), The Knack … (1965), and Tender Is the Night (1985).

Sonia Amalia Haiduc lectures in English literature and film adaptation at the University of Barcelona where she is completing her PhD on biography on screen. She has published on gendered authorship in film adaptation in The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship (2013) and biopics in the journal Adaptation (2014). Her current research also explores late‐Victorian and postcolonial Gothic identities in literature and film.

Lucinda Hobbs is a research student in the Centre for Adaptations at De Montfort University, with a background in commissioning and managing titles on English and English Literature lists for leading educational publishers, having trained as an editor and commissioner at Oxford University Press. She is also editorial manager of the A‐level magazine, The English Review.

Brian Hoyle is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Dundee. He has published on numerous aspects of British and American cinema. His recent works include a chapter on artists’ biopics for the collection British Art Cinema: Creativity, Experimentation, Innovation (Manchester University Press), which he also coedited. He also oversaw the donation of Alan Sharp's archive to the University of Dundee.

I.Q. Hunter is Professor of Film Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, author of Cult Film as a Guide to Life (2016) and British Trash Cinema (2013), and editor or coeditor of 11 books, including Pulping Fictions (1996), British Science Fiction Cinema (1999), Science Fiction Across Media: Adaptation/Novelization (2013), and The Routledge Companion to British Cinema (2017).

Alexa Alice Joubin is Professor of English at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she cofounded the GW Digital Humanities Institute. At Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she is cofounder and codirector of the open access Global Shakespeares digital performance archive (http://globalshakespeares.org). Her latest books include Race (Routledge Critical Idioms series) and Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance (coedited).

Colleen Kennedy‐Karpat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Design at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. She edited Adaptation, Awards Culture, and the Value of Prestige (Palgrave 2017) with Eric Sandberg and is the author of the award‐winning monograph Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s (Fairleigh Dickinson 2013). Other essays, on topics ranging from Bill Murray to Marjane Satrapi, have appeared in Adaptationand elsewhere. She teaches and studies media adaptations, genre, stardom, and directors in France and Hollywood.

Dean J. Kotlowski is Professor of history at Salisbury University. He is the author of Nixon's Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and Policy (Harvard University Press, 2001) and Paul V. McNutt and the Age of FDR (Indiana University Press, 2015) and the editor of The European Union: From Jean Monnet to the Euro (Ohio University Press, 2000). He has published 40 articles and book chapters on US political, diplomatic, and transnational history. He has been a visiting fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University (2017) and has been a Fulbright Scholar three times, in the Philippines (2008), Austria (2016), and Australia (2020).

Robert Kusek (PhD, DLitt) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at the Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His research interests include life writing genres, the contemporary novel in English, as well as a comparative approach to literary studies. He is the author of two monographs, including Through the Looking Glass: Writers' Memoirs at the Turn of the 21st Century (2017), and several dozen articles published in books, academic journals, and magazines, as well as coeditor of 12 volumes of articles, most notably Travelling Texts: J.M. Coetzee and Other Writers (2014).

Robert Miklitsch is Professor in the Department of English at Ohio University. He is the editor of Psycho‐Marxism (1998) and Kiss the Blood Off My Hand (2014) as well as the author of From Hegel to Madonna (1998), Roll Over Adorno (2006), Siren City (2011), and The Red and the Black: American Film Noir in the 1950s (2017). Essays on Todd Haynes's Carol and Michael Curtiz's Young Man with a Horn appear in, respectively, Patricia Highsmith on Screen (2018) and The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz (2018).

Annie Nissen is an Associate Lecturer in English Literature and Film Studies at Lancaster University. She completed her doctorate at Lancaster University with her thesis titled To Adapt or Not to Adapt? – Writers and Writing Across Prose Fiction, Theatre, and Film 1823–1938, and holds a BA (Hons) in Film Studies and Literature and an MA in Literary and Cultural Studies. Her current research is a continuation of her doctoral study on the role of writers and writing within historical Adaptation practices.

Ashley D. Polasek is an English Lecturer at Tri‐County Technical College. Her scholarship utilizes a range of approaches from the areas of adaptation studies, film studies, television studies, and fan studies to examine the screen afterlives of Sherlock Holmes. She has published in Literature Film Quarterly, Adaptation, and Transformative Works and Cultures, and is the coeditor of Sherlock Holmes: Behind the Canonical Screen (2015) and the author of Being Sherlock: A Sherlockian's Stroll through the Best Sherlock Holmes Stories (2019).

Gregory Robinson Assistant Vice Provost of Student Success, Nevada State College, writes on silent movies, with a focus on the intersections of text and film in title cards. His recent publications include ‘All Bad Little Movies When They Die Go to Ralph Spence: The Silent Era's Most Famous Title Writer’, which appeared in Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and ‘Writing on the Silent Screen’, which appears in the Blackwell Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation.

Hila Shachar is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at De Montfort University. She is the author of Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature (Palgrave, 2012), and Screening the Author: The Literary Biopic (Palgrave 2019). She has recently published the article, ‘“He said we can choose our lives”: freedom, intimacy, and identity in Blue is the Warmest Colour’, in Studies in European Cinema (2018).

Jeremy Strong is Professor of Literature and Film at the University of West London. Chair of the Association of Adaptation Studies (2010‐2016), he is widely published on movies, books, and culture. His books include Educated Tastes: Food, Drink, and Connoisseur Culture (2011), James Bond Uncovered (2018), and the novel Mean Business (2013).

Imelda Whelehan is Professor and Dean of the Graduate Research School at the University of Western Australia in Perth. She has written widely on feminism, adaptation studies, and popular culture. Recent publications include Reading Lena Dunham's Girls (coedited with M. Nash, 2017) and Key Concepts in Gender Studies (2d ed. with J. Pilcher, 2017). She is currently writing a monograph on postwar Hollywood adaptations (Bloomsbury) and is coeditor of the Oxford journal, Adaptation, with Professor Deborah Cartmell.

Thanks to the supportive and inspiring Hester, Ian, and Jake Bradley and to Paul Hyde for his constant love and encouragement.