Joy Damousi is Professor of History and Australian Research Council Laureate at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has published on various aspects of grief, trauma and loss during the two world wars. She is author of numerous books, including Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840-1940 (2010) and Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War (2015).
Jane W. Davidson is Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and Professor of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests in emotion are related to conciliation, expression and wellbeing through music performance and listening.