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Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega was born and raised in Senegal of mixed European ancestry. She has been living in Tahiti for 26 years, where she currently holds a tenured position at the University of French Polynesia as a full professor in Anglophone literature. Her field of expertise is postcolonial and decolonial studies and environmental humanities about and from Oceania, which she teaches at both the graduate and postgraduate levels. She has published extensively, with some of her works selected for inclusion in anthologies like 'Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism' (2024) and 'Routledge Historical Resources: 19th Century Empire' (forthcoming). Her latest articles can be found in the special issues of 'Archivio antropologico mediterraneo' (2022), 'Sciences du Jeu' (2023), and 'Journal de la Société des Océanistes' (2025). Her latest books include two collective volumes, 'The Bounty from the Beach' (2018) and 'Urgence écologique au Fenua' (2023), a monograph, 'Orientalisme ou Défi Postcolonial? L'Âme des Guerriers d'Alan Duff' (2021), and a novel, 'Koeur' (2022), about migrations between Europe and Africa. Lorenz Gonschor was born in East Germany of Masurian and German ancestry and has lived in Oceania for 22 years. He is currently a senior lecturer in politics and international affairs at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji. Previously, he taught various social sciences at the University of French Polynesia in Tahiti, 'Atenisi University in Tonga and the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, where he also obtained his PhD in Political Science and his MA in Pacific Islands Studies. His research focus is on the politics of Oceania, both historical and contemporary, with a particular interest in the Hawaiian Kingdom, its international relations, and its intellectual history, as well as the unfinished business of decolonization of Oceania. He is the author of 'A Power in the World: The Hawaiian Kingdom in Oceania' (2019), of chapters in the recent 'Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean' (2022) and 'Unconquered States: Non-European Powers in the Imperial Age' (2024), and a co-author of the forthcoming fourth edition of the 'Historical Dictionary of Polynesia'.

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