Frederike Felcht is Professor of Scandinavian Literature and Culture at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her current research focuses on literature and the environment and on poverty in Scandinavian literature.

Søren Frank is Professor of Nordic Literature at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on ocean and coastal literatures, blue humanities, and the Anthropocene.

Katie Ritson is Assistant Professor in the Scandinavian Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on literature and environment in the context of northern Europe, in particular on the North Sea and its coastlines.