Danny Wong Tze Ken is Professor of History at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya where he teaches history of Southeast Asia and History of China. His research interests include the Chinese in Malaysia, China’s relations with Southeast Asia and History of Sabah. He is currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya. He was Director of Global Planning & Strategy Centre, Universiti Malaya and former Director of the Institute of China Studies and former Head of the Malaysian Chinese Research Centre at the same university. He was Visiting Professor at Peking University (2018). He was also Visiting Yip (China) Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge University (2017-2018); Visiting Scholar at the Hakka College, National Central University, Taiwan (2017); and Visiting Professor at the Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University (2010). Professor Wong is a Member of the Board of Governors, Chinese Heritage Centre, Singapore and Council Member of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Member of the Board of Trustees, SEASREP Foundation, and a former Chairman of the UNESCO Southeast Asian Shared-History Textbook Technical Committee.  Among his publications are: The Kinabalu Guerrillas and the 1943 Jesselton Uprising (2020), Chinese Studies in Malaysia and Singapore in a Global Context (2019), One Crowded Moment of Glory: The Kinabalu Guerrillas and the 1943 Jesselton Uprising (2019), The Diaries of G.C. Woolley, Vol. 1: 1901-1907 (2015); Vol. 2: 1907-1913 (2016) & Vol. 3: 1913-1919 (2018); The Chinese Overseas in Malaysia in an Era of Change (2018), Historical Sabah: The War (2010), The Nguyen and Champa during 17th and 18th Century (2007), Historical Sabah: the Chinese (2005), Historical Sabah: Community and Society (2004), The Transformation of an Immigrant Society: a Study of the Chinese of Sabah (1998).

Farid Mohammadi is a Lecturer at the University of Malaya whose research spans nineteenth-century British literature, aesthetics, critical theory, and J. R. R. Tolkien studies. His work engages Romantic and Victorian aesthetic traditions, environmental humanities, and modern literary theory, with particular emphasis on myth, perception, landscape, and the philosophical dimensions of literary form. He received his PhD from the University of Malaya, where his dissertation examined Tolkien’s literary landscapes. His scholarship has appeared in journals including Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, Teaching in Higher Education, The Explicator, Literature Compass, The British Journal of Aesthetics, Victorian Review, Victoriographies, Journal of Inklings Studies, and Journal of Postcolonial Writing. He is Associate Editor of The Explicator (Taylor & Francis) and also Associate Editor of the English Department's SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English. Farid has also contributed two chapters to Critical Insights: J.R.R. Tolkien (Salem Press, 2026), and his article “‘In the Black Abyss There Appeared a Single Eye’: The Gaze and Self-Fragmentation in The Lord of the Rings” is shortlisted for the 2026 Tolkien Society (UK) Award for Best Article. He is currently completing a monograph on Tolkien and philosophy.

Thuraya Mohd Said @ Hashim merupakan seorang anak jati Seremban, Negeri Sembilan yang dilahirkan di Mekkah, Arab Saudi. Beliau memiliki latar belakang pendidikan yang unik dengan mendapat pendidikan awal di peringkat sekolah rendah dan menengah di sekolah kerajaan Arab Saudi dari tahun 1983 hingga 1995. Sekembalinya ke tanah air pada tahun 1996, beliau melanjutkan pengajian di Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM) dan berjaya memperoleh Ijazah Sarjana Muda Bachelor of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Heritage (Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh) pada tahun 2000. Kecemerlangan akademik beliau diteruskan di universiti yang sama sehingga dianugerahkan ijazah Sarjana Master of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Heritage (Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh) pada tahun 2005. Kerjaya beliau di Universiti Malaya bermula pada tahun 2006 sebagai Guru Bahasa Sambilan di Akademi Pengajian Islam Universiti Malaya, Nilam Puri, Kelantan (APIUMNP). Setelah berkhidmat sebagai Guru Bahasa Kontrak, beliau kemudiannya dilantik ke jawatan tetap pada tahun 2015. Sepanjang tempoh perkhidmatannya, beliau telah mempamerkan dedikasi yang tinggi melalui pelbagai tanggungjawab pentadbiran, termasuklah penglibatan dalam semakan kurikulum, penyelarasan subjek dan pengurusan program pelajar. Beliau juga aktif menyumbang sebagai ahli panel penemuduga bagi Program Khas Bahasa Arab (PKBA) serta terlibat dalam pelbagai jawatankuasa penyelidikan dan penerbitan di peringkat akademi. Atas sumbangan dan kepimpinan beliau dalam bidang bahasa, beliau telah diamanahkan untuk menyandang jawatan Ketua Unit Bahasa Arab bermula dari sesi 2022/2023 sehingga kini bagi sesi 2025/2026. Selain tugas hakiki, beliau turut aktif dalam aktiviti penyelidikan yang membuahkan hasil melalui penerbitan artikel jurnal, bab dalam buku dan penghasilan modul pengajaran bahasa Arab. Kecemerlangan beliau diiktiraf melalui pelbagai anugerah, termasuk memenangi beberapa pingat gangsa bagi projek inovasi di International Research and Information Science Expo (iRISE) 2025, serta penganugerahan Sijil Perkhidmatan Cemerlang daripada Universiti Malaya pada tahun 2018.