Bénédicte Ledent is CLIC Lorand Chair in Intermediality Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2023-2024 and honorary professor from the University of Liège, where she taught anglophone literatures until 2021 and directed the postcolonial research group CEREP from 2009 to 2019. Her research interests include Caribbean and Black British literatures, biographical fiction, slavery novels as well as the representation of madness in literature. She has published extensively on the work of Caryl Phillips and other contemporary writers of the Caribbean diaspora. She is co-editor, with Delphine Munos, of the book series Cross/Cultures (Brill). Her most recent publication is an edited collection of Caryl Phillips’s radio plays (Methuen, 2023).

Lander Kesteloot (°2000) is a doctoral researcher at Ghent University (BOF), studying the reception of Marquis de Sade and the representation of sexual sadism in post-war Dutch literature. He also channels his passion for literature into the podcast De letterfretters, where he and Maxine Rappé devour a book each month.

Tundé Adefioye has a degree in Women's Studies, with a minor in Biology. As well as holds a Master of Research in Bioinformatics. After five years of doing doctoral research in chemoinformatics that was not completed, things took a turn. Tundé founded a poetry group with youth of immigrant backgrounds. Co-created activities that provided access to literature/culture. From this emerged Urban Woorden. As a dramaturg for the Flemish Theatre of Brussels, has done dramaturgy for Sachli Gholamalizad, Junior Mthombeni and the choreograph Moya Michaels, among others. Help initiate Beyond the Binary with lesbian collective Warrior Poets. This was followed by a directorial debut with Contact Theatre Manchester. Spent some time in Lebanon to work with Haven for Artist on SLOW#05: Queer Courage. Served as co-editor for the Vrije University Brussels book Migration, Equality and Racism. Since 20/21 cofounded, working semi-volunteer with Towards Braver Spaces Antwerp, which centers needs of racialized and/or queer folx using a collective care approach.

Tola Ositelu was born and raised in London to Nigerian and Ghanaian parents. She initially studied Law, before eventually obtaining a masters in Sociocultural Linguistics at Goldsmiths University. She has worked for various governmental and educational institutions as well as INGOs, both in the UK and mainland Europe. Tola is currently a PhD fellow and project coordinator at VUB, Belgium. Her research project, (Post-) Migrant Narratives of Mobility and Care: The ‘Windrush’ Generation and the NHS Experience in Society, Literature and Culture aims to analyse and make more visible the formation of narratives surrounding Afrodescendant migrant women’s experience working in care, particularly within the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The study is associated to the MERLIT research project. Tola is also a prolific blogger, freelance writer and editor, contributing arts & culture critique and socio-political commentary to diverse publications. She has been invited to speak on panels about themes such as the rise of the identitarian right and to moderate international political education events.