Sepehri, Sohrab: - Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi is Instructional Professor of Persian at the University of Chicago. She has translated several books from Persian to English and edited several volumes, including Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics and Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation.

Prashant Keshavmurthy is Associate Professor of Persian-Iranian Studies at McGill University. He is the author of Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi: Building an Ark (Routledge, 2016), essays on Persian and Urdu literature; modernism; and Persian literary criticism.