Hyangsoon Yi is a professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia, USA. Her research interests include Buddhist aesthetics in literature and visual arts, Korean Buddhist film, history of Korean Buddhist Nuns, women's monastic practice tradition, and Buddhism and Western literature.

Dal Yong Jin is a distinguished SFU professor in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada. His major research and teaching interests are digital platforms and digital games, globalization and media, transnational cultural studies, and the political economy of media and culture. Jin has published numerous books, journal articles, and book chapters. He is the founding book series editor of Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia.