Celeste-Marie Bernier is Professor of United States and Atlantic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of African American Visual Arts (2008), Characters of Blood (2012), Suffering and Sunset (2015), Stick to the Skin (2019), and Battleground (2022). Her co-authored and co-edited works include Inside the Invisible (2019), Pictures and Power (2018), If I Survive (2018), Visualising Slavery (2016), Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing (2017), and Picturing Frederick Douglass (2015). She is editor of Frederick Douglass' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (2018) and My Bondage and My Freedom (2019). She is the author of the forthcoming The Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass Family Papers and Douglass Family Lives: The Biography.

Andrew Taylor is Professor of American Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely in the field of nineteenth-century US literature and transatlantic literary studies.