Najah Zainal Abidin is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. Her research delves into the intricate ways language influences political, gender, and social dynamics. With a keen interest in the interplay of evasive language, hate speech, impoliteness, and the giving and taking of offenses, she explores how these elements manifest in both everyday conversations and online environments. Najah's work also focuses on discriminatory and offensive language, examining how it shapes and reflects societal attitudes and power structures.

Premalatha Thiagarajan is currently a senior lecturer and the Deputy Dean (Undergraduate and Student Affairs) at the Faculty of Creative Arts, Universiti Malaya. Trained in the Indian classical dances, Bharata Natyam and Odissi, she has staged numerous dance performances and conducted workshops and lecture-demonstrations in Malaysia and abroad. She is the founder of Premalayaa Performing Arts, a company that specialises in Indian classical dance and music. She is a member of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, World Dance Alliance (WDA) and the Dance Studies Association (DSA). Through her numerous research publications, she has pioneered the study on Indian dance in Malaysia. Her current research interest also focuses on dance as therapy and arts and indigenous tourism. 

Senior lecturer in the Department of Chinese Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, as well as the Deputy Director of the Malaysian Chinese Research Centre (MCRC)at the Universiti Malaya. He obtained his PhD in History from Xiamen University, China. He has served as a research executive at a Chinese community-funded college and as a researcher at a Malaysian private academic institution, the Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies (CMCS). His research interests include the left-wing movement in Malaysia, Malaysian Chinese culture and associations, and the Cold War in Asia.