Denise Merkle is a professor of translation at the Université de Moncton, Canada. She has published broadly on translation and censorship, minority and translation, and the translating subject, as well as (co-)editing collected volumes and journal issues. She is a member of the editorial committee of the journal TTR: Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction.

Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University. He is founding editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies, and co-editor of the Bloomsbury book series Literatures, Cultures, Translation and of the Routledge book series Translation Studies in Translation. He is current president of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association and sits on the international advisory board of the Mona Baker Centre for Translation Studies at Shanghai International Studies University and of the Nida Centre for Advanced Study of Translation in Rimini, Italy.