Ann Heylen is a professor in the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages, and Literature, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) and the executive director of the International Taiwan Studies Center (ITSC) at the College of Liberal Arts, NTNU. She is a founding member of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) (2004–present), an editor-in-chief of East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (EAJPC). She graduated with a Ph.D., in Chinese Studies (Sinology) from Catholic University Leuven, (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) in 2001. Since 2008 relocated to Taipei as a professor at National Taiwan Normal University, she teaches and publishes on topics covering the culture, history, and historiography of Taiwan with special attention to Dutch Formosa and the Japanese colonial period (1895–1945). The article “Missionary Linguistics on Taiwan: Dutch Language Policy and Early Formosan Literacy (1624–1662)” published in 2001 (ISBN 9058671615) was first translated and reprinted in Mandarin (1998, 2020).
Christopher Joby is a research associate at the Centre of Taiwan Studies, SOAS, University of London and an honorary research fellow, School of History, University of East Anglia. He has lectured at universities in the UK, South Korea, and Poland and given guest lectures at universities in Taiwan. His research focuses on the intersection of Dutch culture and language and other cultures and languages in historical contexts. He has published many articles and six monographs: Calvinism and the Arts: A Re-assessment (Leuven, 2007); The Multilingualism of Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687) (Amsterdam, 2014); The Dutch Language in Britain (1550–1702) (Leiden, 2015); The Dutch Language in Japan (1600–1900) (Leiden, 2020); John Cruso of Norwich and Anglo-Dutch Literary Identity in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge, 2022); and Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan (Leiden, 2025).