Noël Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, CUNY, the author of 19 books, editor or coeditor of eight volumes, a former journalist, and the author of five documentaries.
Jonathan Gilmore is Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and Baruch College, CUNY. He is coeditor of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. His most recent book is Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind (2020), which was awarded the 2021 Outstanding Monograph Prize by the American Society for Aesthetics.