Based at the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom, Bettina Bildhauer is a Professor of Modern Languages specialising in medieval German. Her interest in The Seven Sages of Rome goes back to her PhD days, when she was interested in the occurrence of blood in one of the Latin versions. She has published on German and Latin versions of The Seven Sages, and co-edited a German-English-language special issue of the journal Das Mittelalter on this textual tradition.

Jutta Eming is a Professor for Medieval German Literature and Language at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. She has worked extensively on aspects of gender, genre, and emotionality in medieval and early modern literature and is especially interested in early modern prose and dramatized versions of The Seven Sages of Rome. She has published on the female characters in two early modern German versions of The Seven Sages and the tales of St Catherine, and is also a co-editor of the upcoming special issue of the journal Das Mittelalter on this textual tradition.

Rita Schlusemann is a “Privatdozentin” for Dutch Philology at Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Her work on the supranational dissemination of several narratives in European language areas and their multimodal characteristics forms the basis for her interest in the "Seven Sages of Rome". She has published on the European dissemination of the so called version H of the narrative, on aspects of genre and on multimodality, especially in the Dutch and Low German incunabula tradition.

Jane Bonsall is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of St Andrews. Her work on gender, affect, and genre intially drew her to the Seven Sages material, and she has forthcoming work exploring the way the Middle English version of the text negotiates (non-)consent and coercion. In addition to refining and populating the database of texts, her work on the project includes exploration of gender, age, and performance across the Seven Sages tradition.

Elisabeth Böttcher studies English and German Philology at Freie Universität Berlin, where she has been a student since 2018.

Ulrich Marzolph served most of his professional life as a member of the editorial committee of the German-language Enzyklopädie des Märchens and as adjunct professor of Arabic, Persian, and Islamic Studies at the Georg-August-University at Göttingen. His main area of interest is the rich field of Middle Eastern Muslim narrative culture. His last major book publication is “101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition” (Detroit, 2020). Retired since 2019, he is currently working on fables in premodern Arabic literature.

Yasmina Foehr-Janssens is full professor of French Medieval Literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research focuses on Gender Studies applied to Medieval French Literature. She has been the leader of an interdisciplinary research program on the history of breastfeeding and its cultural aspects. The Swiss National Science Foundation and the Belgian Fonds de la recherche scientifique (Wallonie) fund her present research on The Seven Sages in French Literature with a special focus on the construction of masculinity and serial writing.

Ida Toth a historian of late antique and medieval literary culture working in the Greek, Latin, and Slavonic linguistic areas. She holds the post of University Research Lecturer and Fellow in Medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek, and Byzantine Epigraphy at Oxford University. Her fascination with The Seven Sages of Rome stems from her long-standing interest in the cross-cultural transmission of wisdom literature. She has published on the Greek and Slavonic Life of Aesop, and on the Byzantine traditions of The Life of Syntipas the Philosopher.

Csilla Gabor is a professor in the Department of Hungarian Literary Studies, at BBU Cluj. She has published work on medieval and early modern Hungarian literature, in particular devotional literature and the history of rhetoric. Her work on the Hungarian Seven Sages texts examines the allegorical and instructional aspects of the narrative, and the recycling of some of the textual elements as exempla in sermons.

Emilie van Opstall is a senior lecturer of Classics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. After having studied Classics (literature and linguistics), she specialized in Late Antique and Byzantine Greek (editions, commentaries, translations), developing a particular interest in prose and poetry in its cultural context. Her current research project ‘Travelling Tales’ focuses on early versions of the Seven Sages of Rome from the East and the West (Greek, Latin, Arabic) from a comparative perspective.