Over twenty specialist contributors includeNoit Banai, Lecturer of Visual and Critical Studies at Tufts University, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, BostonGauvin Alexander Bailey, Professor and Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at Queen's University, Kingston, OntarioLee Beard, British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art, LondonLucy Bowditch, Associate Professor of Art History at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New YorkOlga Goriunova, Assistant Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick, CoventryKatie Hill, Director of the Office of Contemporary Chinese Art and consultant lecturer at Sotheby's Institute of ArtMonica Kjellman-Chapin, Associate Professor of Art History at Emporia State University, KansasLloyd Laing, Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Archaeology, University of NottinghamCaroline Levitt, Visiting Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art, LondonMatthew McKelway, Associate Professor of Japanese Art History at Columbia University, New YorkJeffrey Moser, Assistant Professor of East Asian Art History at McGill University, MontrealStella Paul, formerly Educator-in-Charge of Exhibitions and Communication, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkAlistair Rider, Lecturer in Art History at the University of St Andrews, ScotlandRobert Shane, Assistant Professor of Art History at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New YorkSarah Symmons, Reader Emeritus in Art History and Theory, University of Essex/p>Elsje van Kessel, Lecturer in Art History at the University of St Andrews, ScotlandAlicia Volk, Associate Professor of Japanese Art History at the University of Maryland