Jacob Blakesley is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at University of Rome La Sapienza's Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali. He formerly co-directed, with Federica Pich, the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies (2018-21). He co-edited The Afterlife of Dante's Vita Nova in the Anglophone World (Routledge, 2022), with Federica Coluzzi. His forthcoming monograph on Dante's global translation history will be published by Legenda (Transcript).

Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. is Pizzo Family Professor of Dante Studies and Ravarino Family Director of the Center of Italian Studies and the Devers Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Cachey specializes in Italian Medieval and Renaissance literature, particularly Dante and Petrarch, the history of the Italian language, and travel literature.

Federica Pich is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Trento. From 2012 to 2021 she taught at the University of Leeds, where she co-directed, with Jacob Blakesley, the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies (2018-21).