Dr Kai Easton is Senior Lecturer in English at SOAS, University of London. She was one of the first scholars to access Coetzee's archival materials at Houghton Library, Harvard University in the late 1990s and has published widely on Coetzee and South African literature, including most recently (with Derek Attridge) Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal (Routledge, 2017). She has previously taught at the universities of Sussex, Rhodes and was an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She has twice been awarded research fellowships at the Harry Ransom Center (2014; 2018).

Dr. Hermann Wittenberg is Associate Professor of English at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He has worked extensively in South Africa literary studies and published several archival studies on Khoi narratives and the work of J.M. Coetzee and Alan Paton. His edited books include Paton's Lost City of the Kalahari travelogue (UKZN Press, 2005) and the J.M. Coetzee's Two Screenplays (UCT Press, 2014). He has strong interests in the intersection of literature, film and photography, and has co-curated the recent "J.M. Coetzee: Photographs of Boyhood" exhibition (2017-18). He is the editor of a forthcoming photobook of the same title. He is the editor of a forthcoming photobook of the same title. Wittenberg is also interested in eco-critical writing and has co-edited an interdisciplinary collection of essays, Rwenzori: Histories and Cultures of an African Mountain (Kampala: Fountain Press 2007), as well as a special issue of Alternation focusing on oceanic and coastal themes in South African literature. He has been awarded a research fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center for the 2019-2020 session.