Andrea Tschemplik is associate professor of philosophy and religion at American University and teaches a variety of courses in the history of philosophy, as well as thematic courses such as the philosophy of love and friendship. She is the author of Knowledge and Self-Knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus, the editor and translator of Plato, The Republic: The Comprehensive Student Edition, and the translator of published selections from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.

Mary Ann McHugh is an instructor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University, specializing in the area of gender. She is coauthor of the 2017 edition of Now Playing: Learning Communication Through Film and a contributing editor of World Religions, Converging Media: A New Introduction to Mass Communication, and Interplay: The Process of Interpersonal Communication.