Claire Jowitt is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of East Anglia. Author of Voyage Drama and Gender Politics, 1589-1642 and The Culture of Piracy: English Literature and Seaborne Crime 1580-1630, she is currently preparing, as General Editor, an edition of Richard Hakluyt's The Principal Navigations (1598-1600).

Craig Lambert is Associate Professor in Maritime History at the University of Southampton. Author of Shipping the Medieval Military and numerous articles/book chapters on naval operations and maritime communities (c.1300-c.1600), he has recently launched a free to access searchable database of over 50,000 ship-voyages (c.1400-c.1577): www.medievalandtudorships.org

Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. A scholar of early modern literature and the environmental humanities, he is author of Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization 1550-1719 (2015), Break Up the Anthropocene (2019), and Ocean (2020).