Mark Shiel is Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University and was formerly Faculty of Arts Fellow at the Centre for Film Studies, University College Dublin. He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and completed his PhD, "Radical Agendas and the Politics of Space in American Cinema, 1968-1974" at the British Film Institute in London in 1999.

Tony Fitzmaurice is College Lecturer at the Centre for Film Studies, University College Dublin. As well as writing regularly on the arts, Tony Fitzmaurice is a member of the Film Institute of Ireland, and is currently preparing an anthology of Irish Film Studies readings.