Charlotte Spear is a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Her thesis is titled "Locating the Human: World Literature and the Concept of Rights" and explores the role of literature in rethinking dominant human rights frameworks. She has published on the notion of the "state of emergency" in Modern Language Review, on refugee-migrant fiction in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, on postcolonial humanitarian intervention with De Gruyter and on sex workers' rights in debt economies in The Journal of World-Systems Research.

Madeleine Sinclair is a Comparative Literature PhD candidate and Early Career Teaching Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning at University of Warwick, UK. Entitled "World-Literature, Neoliberalism and the Politics of the Twenty-First Century Short Story-Cycle", her Wolfson Foundation-funded PhD thesis foregrounded the short story as a distinctive genre in world-literature by examining the interconnections between aesthetics and politics in contemporary short fictional forms. Her work is published, or forthcoming, in Literature Compass, Journal of World-Systems Research and Journal of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice. She is guest editor of a special issue on "Short Fiction: Landscape and Temporality", forthcoming with the Journal of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice.