Nicole N. Aljoe is Professor of English and Africana Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. She is co-Director of The Early Caribbean Digital Archive and Mapping Black London, and Director of the Early Black Boston Digital Almanac. Her research and teaching focuses on 18th and early 19th Century Black Atlantic and Caribbean literatures with specializations in slave narrative, early novels about race, and digital humanities.

Markman Ellis is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of several monographs on early modern literature and society, and has published essays on Ignatius Sancho, the 'slave' narrative, and eighteenth-century Caribbean poetry.

Oliver Ayers is Associate Professor in History at Northeastern University London, and London Director of Northeastern's Humanities Center. His research centres on themes of race, urban space and digital historical analysis. He is co-leader of the multiyear digital history project, Mapping Black London, alongside Nicole N. Aljoe.