Shaoling Ma is Assistant Professor of Humanities (Literature) at Yale-NUS College. She is the author of The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861-1906 (Duke UP, 2021), and has published in Critical Inquiry, Configurations, and positions. Asst Prof Ma is a member of the Advisory Board for the Technicities book series, Edinburgh University Press, and also sits on the main Editorial Board for Cultural Politics and World Picture.

Alvin Eng Hui Lim is a performance, religion and theatre researcher. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. He holds a PhD in Theatre Studies jointly awarded by the National University of Singapore and King’s College London. He is also Deputy Director and Technology and Online Editor (Mandarin) of the Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive (A|S|I|A, http://a-s-i-a-web.org/). Lim’s first monograph, titled Digital Spirits in Religion and Media: Possession and Performance (2018), studies how lived religious practices in contemporary Singapore perform in combination with digital technology. He has also published on Singapore theatre, translation, digital archiving, and religious performance in Singapore.