Michael T. Heneise is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. His work brings phenomenological and anthropological approaches to dreams, healing, and human-more-than-human relations in Highland Asia and the Arctic. He is President and co-founder of the Highland Institute, an independent research centre in Northeast India, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of HIMALAYA: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies.

Cassandra Falke is Professor of English Literature and leader of the Interdisciplinary Phenomenology group at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. She has written two monographs and 50 articles and chapters, and has co/edited five collections. Her work has received support from Fulbright, the NEH, the NOS-HS, and Cornell University.

Espen Dahl is Professor of Systematic Theology at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. He writes on phenomenological approaches to religious experience, holiness, aesthetics, evil, nature, and the body. His most recent book is Incarnation, Pain, Theology: A Phenomenology of the Body (2024).

Alice Sundman holds a PhD in English Literature from Stockholm University. Her current research focuses on literary imaginings of water in climate-changed future worlds. Her monograph Toni Morrison and the Writing of Place (Routledge 2022) explores the creation and presentation of Toni Morrison's literary places.

Edvard Lia is a PhD fellow at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, working on a dissertation titled The Phenomenon of Breath: An Existential Interpretation of Respiratory Facts with Hans Jonas as the primary philosophical interlocutor. His other general research interests include the phenomenological tradition, Hegel's philosophy, and eco-Marxism.