Lata Singh is Associate Professor, Centre for Women's Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been a British Academy Visiting Fellow, Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and University Grants Commission Research Awardee. An editorial board member of the Dutch Journal of Feminist Studies, her books and edited collections include Raising the Curtain: Recasting Women Performers in India (Orient BlackSwan, 2017); Theatre in Colonial India: Play-House of Power (OUP, 2009); Popular Translations of Nationalism: Bihar, 1920-22 (Primus Books, 2012); Colonial and Contemporary Bihar and Jharkhand (Primus Books, 2014); and Violence and Performing Arts (IIAS Shimla, 2016). She was the Guest Editor of a special issue of the Indian Historical Review on 'Issues of Gender: Colonial and Post-Colonial India' (2008).
Shashank Shekhar Sinha is an independent researcher and the author of Restless Mothers and Turbulent Daughters: Situating Tribes in Gender Studies (Stree, 2005) and Delhi, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri: Monuments, Cities and Connected Histories (Pan Macmillan, 2021). He has published extensively on Adivasis, gender, and witch hunting. Sinha taught undergraduate courses in history at the University of Delhi for almost a decade (1994-2004). He worked with Oxford University Press (2004-2012) before moving on to join Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, as Publishing Director (South Asia) in 2012.