Helen Constantine has translated many classic writers from French, including Colette, Zola, Laclos, Gautier, Flaubert, Balzac and Proust. She is the general editor of the City Tales series of short stories published by Oxford University Press.

Michael Lucey is Sidney and Margaret Ancker Chair and Distinguished Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality (2003), Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust (2006), Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Hervé Guibert (2019), and What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk (2022). His translation of Didier Eribon's The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman appeared in 2025.

Adam Watt is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter, where he is Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. His books include Reading in Proust's A la recherche: le délire de la lecture (2009), The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust (2011), a critical biography of Proust (2013), and, as editor, Marcel Proust in Context (2013) and The Cambridge History of the Novel in French (2021). He has published comparative work on Proust and a range of writers from Valéry, Rivière, Beckett, and Barthes to Eve Kosofsky-Sedgwick and Anne Carson.