Dr Jon Hackett is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Brunel University and former Head of the Department of Communications, Media and Marketing at St Mary's University. He is author (with Dr Mark Duffett, of the University of Chester,) of Scary Monsters: Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music. His current research focuses on migration in the media, and political cinemas.

Dr Seán Harrington is an academic and lecturer, who currently lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. He has taught cohorts of students from UCD (Ireland), Boston University (USA), Brunel, West London (UK) and St. Mary's University, Twickenham (UK). While he has previously published work on animation and psychoanalytic theory, he has a special love of weird fiction and all things horror.

Damian O'Byrne is a Senior Lecturer at St Mary's University, Twickenham and is Course Lead for the university's Foundation Year. His background is in graphic design and he teaches across a range of practical modules that focus on magazine design, digital art and photographic manipulation. His research interests have concerned digital media and specifically the role and impact of live television news from a Baudrillarian perspective. He also edits, designs and publishes SBG magazine, an independent magazine about wargaming in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Damian has recently begun to combine his personal passion for Tolkien with his academic career and is embarking on a PhD focussing on the practices of Middle-earth fan communities.