Paul Booth is Professor of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Communication at De Paul University, USA. He is the author or editor of ten books, including the Wiley Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (2018); Crossing Fandoms: SuperWhoLock and the Contemporary Fan Audience (2016); Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture (Bloomsbury, 2016).

Craig Owen Jones is a lecturer at San Jose State University, USA, and an Honorary Research Associate at the School of Music and Media, Bangor University, Wales. He has written three books and over 30 articles on TV and film studies, music, history, and literary criticism.