Nina Cornyetz is a professor of interdisciplinary studies at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Instruction, USA, and is the author of The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature: Polygraphic Desire (Routledge, 2007).

Rebecca Copeland is a professor of modern Japanese literature at Washington University in St. Louis, USA, and is the author of the novel The Kimono Tattoo (2021).