Dr. Gaston Franssen (1977) is assistant professor of Literary Culture at the University of Amsterdam.Rick Honings is Scaliger Professor Special Collections at Leiden University and a specialist in nineteenth-century Dutch and Dutch Indies literature. In 2018 he published
Star Authors in the Age of Romanticism: Literary Celebrity in the Netherlands, the international edition of his monograph
De dichter als idool: Literaire roem in de negentiende eeuw (2016). In 2021, he co-edited
De postkoloniale spiegel: De Nederlands-Indische letteren herlezen. Currently, he works with a research team on the NWO Vidi project
Voicing the Colony: Travelers in the Dutch East Indies, 1800-1900. He is editor-in-chief of the journal
Indische Letteren.