Julien Rueff is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the Université de Montréal. His thesis focuses on the dialectic of coercion and consent in Gramscian philosophy of praxis. He is also Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Communication at Université Laval. His research interests include the social, cultural and political aspects of digital media, as well as critical theories in the humanities and social sciences.

Cristina Carnemolla is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies with a specialization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and cultural history. Her research focuses on realist and naturalist novels with a comparative interest between the Italian, Spanish, Peruvian and Argentine traditions. A separate strand of her scholarly work focuses on eccentric Marxist thinkers in the 1930s such as Antonio Gramsci and José Carlos Mariátegui. She has published on the reception of naturalism and realism in Italy and Spain, on women writers in the long nineteenth century, Antonio Gramsci, and ecocriticism.

Roberto Viviani is a doctoral candidate and course lecturer McGill University. He holds a MA in Law from the University of Macerata, and a MA in Philosophy from the University of Montréal. The main interest of his current research project is Pier Paolo Pasolini's aesthetics and the representation of oppression in his mature works. Roberto's research is framed through Post-Structuralist and Neo-Marxist theory, and promotes an interdisciplinary approach that combines Phenomenology, Genealogy, Literature and Cinema. Since 2022, he has been a promoter and organizer of the GRC's annual conferences (Rethinking Gramsci) and is a member of the International Gramsci Society.

Lena A. Hübner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests focus on news consumption through the lens of gender, race, and class, power dynamics in academic research, and the role of digital technologies in feminist activism against sexual violence. She co-edited issue no. 26 of the journal Les Cahiers du CEDREF, titled « Faire de la recherche féministe : défis épistémologiques et méthodologiques au Québec et en France » (2023). She is currently conducting a research project funded by the University of Ottawa that combines art, research, and community engagement to explore the links between violence and digital informational practices among racialized Franco-Canadian women.

Éric George is full professor at the École des médias (Faculty of Communication) at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and chair of the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la communication, l'information et la société (CRICIS). His research projects focus on transformations in the cultural and media industries, social and environmental mobilisations, and relationship between communication, capitalism and democracy in a context characterized by the widespread digitalization of societies, the ongoing deepening of the exploitation of capital, the growing development of authoritarian regimes and the ongoing climate catastrophe with an approach based on elements from the political economy of culture and communication, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory. He is the author of a hundred peer-reviewed texts (articles, book chapters and conference proceedings) and is responsible for or co-editor of five books.

Omer Moussaly holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Université du Québec à Montréal (2014) and obtained a second Ph.D. in philosophy from Université Laval (2022), exploring the ancient sources underlying Algernon Sidney’s republican thought. His first thesis focused on Antonio Gramsci’s political thought. Much of his research focuses on political ideas and critical theory. He was a postdoctoral researcher with the UNESCO Chair for the Study of the Philosophical Foundations of Justice and Democratic Society (UQAM) and is currently pursuing postdoctoral research at the department of political science at l’Université du Québec à Montréal as well as teaching philosophy at Bois-de-Boulogne College.

Joshua Harold Wiebe is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute. He studies representations of labour.

Sonia Longo is currently completing a Master of Arts at McGill University.

Annabelle Rivard Patoine holds a Ph.D. in economic sociology at l’Université de Montréal.