Dominic Parviz Brookshaw is Professor of Persian Literature and Iranian Culture at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow in Persian at Wadham College. Brookshaw has been teaching Persian language and literature at the university level for more than two decades.

Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi is Instructional Professor of Persian at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the University of Chicago. She teaches Persian language and culture as well as media Persian and Persian literary translation. Prior to that, she was Senior Lecturer of Persian Language and Linguistics at McGill University.