Susan Bassnett is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow. She has published widely on aspects of translation, and her ground-breaking book Translation Studies is used across the world. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Institute of Linguists, the Academia Europaea, and is President of the British Comparative Literature Association.

Piotr Blumczynski is a Professor of Translation and Intercultural Studies, and Director of the Centre for Translation and Interpreting at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of Ubiquitous Translation (2016) and Experiencing Translationality (2023), and co-editor of Translating Values (2016) and The Languages of COVID-19 (2022). He is the Editor-in-chief of the journal Translation Studies.