Jumana Bayeh is Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is the author of The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora (2015) and several articles on Arab diaspora fiction. She co-edited Democracy, Diaspora, Territory: Europe and Cross-Border Politics (2020), as well as a special issue on "Arabs in Australia" in Mashriq & Mahjar. She is working on two research projects, one that examines the representation of the nation-state in Arab diaspora literature from writers based in Australia, North America, and the United Kingdom, and another collaborative project looking at the global resurgence of riots. Helen Groth is Professor of English in the School of Arts and Media, University of New South Wales. She is the author of Victorian Photography and Literary Nostalgia (OUP, 2004), Moving Images: Nineteenth-Century Reading and Screen Practices (2013), and co-author of Dreams and Modernity: A Cultural History (2013). She is the co-editor of a number of books and special journal issues, most recently Sounding Modernism: Rhythm and Sonic Mediation in Modern Literature and Film (2017), and The Edinburgh Companion to Literary Sound Studies (2023). Julian Murphet is Jury Chair of English Language and Literature at the University of Adelaide. Prior to that he was Scientia Professor of English and Film Studies at UNSW, Sydney. He has published widely in the fields of modern and contemporary literature, literary theory, film studies, race, and other areas of critical inquiry. Forthcoming books include Modern Character: 1890-1905, Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary History, and the Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Sound Studies, also edited with Helen Groth.