Patricia Fumerton is distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, California, and Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive. She has edited nine collections of essays, and authored three monographs. Pavel Kosek is full Professor of Czech Language at the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. He has co-edited four critical editions, three collections of essays, and authored two books. Marie Hanzelková is assistant Professor at the Department of Czech Literature, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech. She has published several articles about Czech hymn-books from the sixteenth century. Formerly Researcher at the Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Moravian Library in Brno, https://www.mzk.cz/en/study-rooms/manuscripts-and-early-printed-books. Machá?ková has published several journal articles about the collection of old printings of the Moravian Library and about Czech writers of the twentieth century. Assistant Professor of Czech language at the Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Czech Republic, https://ucjtk.ff.cuni.cz/ustav/lide/zamestnanci/mgr-alena-andrlova-fidlerova-ph-d/. Fidlerová has edited one critical edition, three textbooks, and co-authored two books: Repertorium rukopis? 17. a 18. století z muzejních sbírek v ?echách. Part I, A–J, and Part II, K–O (2003) Associate Professor of Czech literature in the Department of Czech Literature, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/91-hana-bockova. Bo?ková has co-edited four critical editions and authored the monograph Knihy nábožné a prosté. K nábožensky vzd?lávací slovesné tvorb? doby barokní. Director of the Ibero-American Centre of Metropolitan University in Prague and a research fellow at Complutense University in Madrid: https://www.mup.cz/en/research/research-centres/ibero-american_x0002_centre-iac/our-team/. B?ezinová is author of monographs and articles that focus on the non-hegemonic processes of identification, mobilities of people and ideas within the Americas, as well as on the historical narratives of exchange and interconnectedness that the period of the Cold War helped to create between Latin America and Central Europe. In her most recent monograph entitled A Different Minority? US Latinos between Kennedy and Trump (2020), she analyzes the U.S. Latinx community in the nexus of transnational migration and citizenship Researcher in the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/11829-veronika-bromova. Bromová has authored the monograph Textová struktura nejstarších ?eských listin se zvláštním z?etelem k vývoji formulá?e (2009). Researcher at the National Museum and curator of the collection of broadside ballads and chapbooks and the digital library Špalí?ek (http://www.spalicek.net/). Bydžovská has published several articles about Czech broadside ballads and has organized two exhibitions. iva.bydzovska@nm.cz Head of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Department of the Moravian Library in Brno (https://www.mzk.cz/en/study-rooms/manuscripts-and-early-printed-books). Dufka has published several articles about the collecting and cataloguing of old printings. His most recent work (with Eva Chod?jovská) is a monograph: Sb?ratel a jeho atlas. Bernard Pavel Moll (2021). Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, http://www.eu.avcr.cz/cs/pracovnici/vera_x0002_frolcova/. Frolcová has co-edited three collections of essays and co-authored two monographs, most recently, Velikonoce v ?eské lidové kultu?e, 2nd ed. (2020). Formerly Researcher at the Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Moravian Library in Brno, https://www.mzk.cz/en/study-rooms/manuscripts-and-early-printed-books. Glombová co-edited the exhibition catalogue The Wide Road to Brno: Broadside Ballads with Secular Themes (2021). Associate Professor in the Institute of Culture Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland, https://www. researchgate.net/profile/Piotr-Grochowski-2. Grochowski is the author of several monographs and papers dealing with Polish broadside ballads, folklore and popular culture, inter alia, Straszna zbrodnia rodzonej matki: Polskie pie?ni nowiniarskie na prze?omie XIX i XX w. (2010). Piotr.Grochowski@umk.pl Full Professor of Czech literature at the Department of Czech Literature, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/2257-michaela-soleiman_x0002_pour-hashemi/zivotopis. Hashemi has co-edited four critical editions and two collections of essays, and she has authored two monographs: Karel Ra?ín—nedocen?ný barokní autor (2005) and Literární fenomén nepomu_x0002_censké homiletiky (2007) Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, http://www.eu.avcr.cz/en/about-us/ staff/marketa-holubova/. She has co-edited three collections of essays and co-authored eight monographs, most recently, Etnografický atlas ?ech, Moravy a Slezska IX. (2020) Assistant Professor of Czech Literature in the Department of Czech Literature and Literary Criticism and Researcher at the Centre for Regional Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, https://ff.osu.eu/jakub-ivanek/8855/. Ivánek has co-edited three collections of essays and co-authored three books, most recently Horo krásná, spanilá! Poutní písn? na Morav? (1600–1850) (2019) Researcher at the Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Moravian Library in Brno, https://www.mzk.cz/en/study_x0002_rooms/manuscripts-and-early-printed-books. Machová has published Three Collections of Czech Broadside Ballads 153 several journal articles dealing with the early printings in the collections of Moravian Library. Full Professor of Czech Literature at the Department of Czech Literature and Literary Criticism, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, https://ff.osu.eu/kcl/jan-malura/12695/. Malura has co_x0002_edited three critical editions, co-edited six collections of essays, and co_x0002_authored five books, most recently Horo krásná, spanilá! Poutní písn? na Morav? (1600–1850) (2019). Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, Poland), https://ispan.waw.pl/default/ en/employee/maciej-metrak/. M?trak has published several journal articles about minority languages and cultures, linguistic contact in German-Slavic border areas, and Czech nineteenth-century popular literature (broadside ballads and chapbooks) from a linguistic and anthropological perspective Assistant Professor of Czech Language in the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/109306-olga-navratilova. Navrátilová has authored two books, the most recent of which is Slovosled posesivních zájmen ve staré ?eštin? (2018). Full Professor of Czech Language in the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/218-jana-pleskalova/zivotopis. Pleskalová has co-edited four collections of essays and authored two books: Tvo?ení nejstarších ?eských osobních jmen (1998) and Vývoj vlastních jmen osobních v ?eských zemích v letech 1000–2010 (2011). Researcher at the Ethnographic Institute, Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic, http://www.mzm.cz/etnograficky-ustav. Poláková has published several journal articles about Czech broadside ballads and popular culture and has written two monographs, the most recent of which is Dva životy, dv? kultury, dv? zem?. ?ekové na ?eském území od 2. poloviny 20. století do sou?asnosti (2020). She has also been the curator of two exhibitions about Czech broadside ballads, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxMF8EudGtc. Researcher at the Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, http://uhv.sav.sk/ustav/vedecki-pracovnici/mgr-peter-ruscin-phd/. Ruš?in has edited and co-edited two collections of essays as well as authored two monographs, the most recent of which is Cantus Catholici a tradícia duchovného spevu na Slovensku (2012). peter.ruscin@savba.sk Researcher at the Czech Museum of Music, National Museum, Czech Republic, https://www.nm.cz/slavicky-tomas-phdr-phd. Slavický has co-edited a critical edition (Fridrich Bridelius: Jesli?ky. Staré nové písni?ky [2012]) as well as a collection of essays. tomas.slavicky@nm.cz Researcher at the Regional Studies Centre in the Depart_x0002_ment of Czech Literature and Literary Criticism, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, https://ff.osu.eu/katerina-smyckova/81197/#3-publikacni-cinnost. Smy?ková has published several journal articles about Czech hymn books and authored the monograph Krátká v??nost:Vytržení z ?asu v narativních textech od st?edov?ku na práh moderní doby (2022). katerina.smyckova@osu.cz Researcher at the Silesian Museum and at the Centre for Regional Studies, Department of Czech Literature and Literary Criticism, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, https://www.osu.eu/monika-szturcova/45359/. Szturcová has published several journal articles about Czech and Polish pilgrimage broadside ballads and co-authored a book: Pod ochranu tvou se utíkáme. Kult Panny Marie ?enstochovské v ?eském Slezsku a na Morav?/Pod twoj? obron? uciekamy si?. Kult Matki Boskiej Cz?stochowskiej na ?l?sku Czeskim i na Morawach (2019) Assistant Professor in the Department of Czech Litera_x0002_ture, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.phil.muni.cz/en/about-us/faculty-staff/13963-marie-hanzelkova. Hanzelková has published several articles about Czech hymn books from the sixteenth century and about Czech pilgrimage broadside ballads (e.g., “‘Turning’ of Czech Pilgrimage Broadside Ballads” [2021]). marie.hanzelkova@phil.muni.cz. Researcher at the Czech Language Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, https://ujc.avcr.cz/zakladniinformace/pracovnici/timofejev-dmitrij.html. Timofejev has co-edited six electronic critical editions and co-authored the book Rukopisné zlomky Knihovny Národního muzea, signatury 1 D, 1 E a 1 G (2016)
