Robert G. Sullivan is Associate Professor of German and Scandinavian Studies and Adjunct Professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. His teaching and scholarly interests include medieval spirituality, the Crusades, and the representation of the Muslim world in Europe during the Middle Ages and today. He is the author of Justice and the Social Context of Early Middle High German Literature (2001), and holds degrees from McGill University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Meriem Pagès is Associate Professor of English at Keene State College. While her primary research interest lies in the representation of Islam in medieval Europe, she has also published on contemporary popular medievalism and pedagogy. She is the author of From Martyr to Murderer: Representations of the Assassins in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Europe (2014), and edited The Middle Ages on Television: Critical Essays (with Karolyn Kinane, 2015). She currently serves as the Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Forum.