Zsolt Bánhegyi is Systems Librarian of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Henrik Birnbaum is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA and Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992). His books include On Medieval and Renaissance Slavic Writing. Selected Essays (1974), Aspects of the Slavic Middle Ages and Slavic Renaissance Culture (1992), and Novgorod in Focus: Selected Essays (1996).
Wolf Lepenies is Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Member of the Academia Europaea, London, as well as Chairman of the Kuratorium of Collegium Budapest. His latest book is Aufstieg und Fall der Intellektuellen in Europa.
Pál Lôvei is an art historian on the staff of the National Board for the Protection of Historic Monuments. Areas of research: medieval sepulchral art, heraldry, architectural history.
Edit Madas is a member of the Fragmenta Codicum Research group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences specializing in medieval manuscripts and codex fragments. She has published studies in codicology, paleography and medieval Latin and Hungarian literature.
Nicholas T. Parsons is a freelance writer living in Vienna. He is the author of Hungary, a Cultural Guide (1990), The Xenophobe's Guide to the Austrians (1994) and The Blue Guide to Vienna (1996).
Ivan Sanders teaches literature at the State University of New York and the New School for Social Research. He has translated novels by Milán Füst, György Konrád, and Péter Nádas.
Jirina Smejkalová has taught at various universities including the Charles University of Prague, the Central European University in Budapest and, most recently, the Universität Donau, Krems. In 1996 she was visiting fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in Vienna. Currently she is working on a book on the transformation of Czech literary insitutions.
Júlia Szabó is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She teaches at the Central European University, Prague, and is the author of Painting in Nineteenth Century Hungary (Corvina, 1988).
András Török is a Budapest author and lecturer in urban history. His books include biographies of Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde and Budapest: A Critical Guide.