Lieke Stelling studied English literature at the University of Utrecht and University College London and comparative literature at the University of Utrecht. She completed her PhD at the University of Leiden in 2013 before returning to Utrecht in 2015. Her research interests include sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, Shakespeare, religious conversion, humour and religion, and early modern conceptions of Europe.

Anton Bruder is a researcher in Renaissance literature, working on Dr Lieke Stelling's Vidi Project, 'Discovering Europe in the Eearly Modern Period: How Literary Bestsellers Shapes a Diverse Community (1517-1713)'. He focuses on the representation of multilingualism in relation to European identity in European bestsellers of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The remarkable resistance to the problematisation of multilingualism in the popular tradition of chivalric romances forms a counterpoint to thinking about more critical explorations of language and problems of mutual comprehension in works from Pantagruel to Don Quijote.

Francesca Barbera studied English Literature and Linguistics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Early Modern Studies at University College London. Her research focuses on the depiction of cities as European microcosms in early modern literary bestsellers.

Noortje Alderlieste is an MA student in Literary Studies at Leiden University, where she also obtained her BA in English Language and Culture. She has a particular interest in the Early Modern period, with a focus on manuscript studies, genderstudies, and the mediation of authorship. Her academic interests further include women authors, as well as questions of law, justice, and social class in literary and cultural contexts.

Dániel Forgács is a second-year student in the Renaissance Studies track (RMA Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies) at Utrecht University. He previously studied International Business at Avans University of Applied Sciences, and obtained a Pre-Master's in History of Politics and Society at Utrecht. He is interested in the literary culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth century, and the reception of the Middle Ages and Antiquity in the Early Modern Period.