Sarah de Mul is a Professor of Culture, Literature and Diversity at the Open University in the Netherlands. Her publications and research interests are situated at the intersection of literary and cultural criticism and comparative postcolonial and gender studies with a particular focus on literatures in Dutch and English. In March 2023 she presented her inaugural lecture on Burn-out culture, diversity and inclusion.

Pepita Hesselberth is assistant professor in Film and Digital Media at Leiden University and the Director of NICA, the Netherlands Institute of Cultural Analysis. She has published widely on disconnection, retreat culture and the politics of withdrawal.

Carmen Verhoeven studied Dutch Literature (BA and rMA) at Utrecht University. She was affiliated with the Open University as a PhD candidate in a researchproject into burnout metaphors in Dutch-language literature. She currently works as a lecturer of song text analysis, cabaret analysis and Lecture Performance at the Koningstheateracademie of Avans University of Applied Sciences. She has published articles in, among others, Journal of Dutch Literature, De Groene Amsterdammer, Tijdschrift Vooys, Platform Leest and Neerlandistiek.

Mart Boumans is a Bachelor Student in Arts and Cultural Studies and a performing/recording musician. He is interested in the functioning of critique in a commodified context, the politics of taste and employing Art as a research tool.

Amanda Midence studied Tourism at the universities of Texas and Nijmegen and is currently working as social media strategist for the corporate communications department at Radboud University. She likes writing and reading literature as well as running marathons

Tom Sintobin is an assistant professor Arts and Culture studies at Radboud University. His research interests include regional literature and culture in the low countries, cultural soil studies, literary representations of minorities and the relationship between art and tourism.