Stacey Sloboda is Paul H. Tucker Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. She has held fellowships from the Kress Foundation, the Huntington Library, the Yale Center for British Art, the American Philosophical Society, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Sloboda is the editor of Bloomsbury Academic’s forthcoming A Cultural History of Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment, 1650-1800 and she writes widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art.
Michael Yonan is Alan Templeton Endowed Professor of European Art, 1600-1830, University of California, Davis, USA. He has previously taught at Stockholm University in Sweden and the University of Missouri, USA. Yonan was President of Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art & Architecture from 2012 until 2016 and now serves on the Executive Board of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is the General Editor of the book series Material Culture of Art & Design, which is published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts.