Kate Jordanis a lecturer in history and theory in the Faculty of Architecture, University of Westminster. She regularly lectures at the V&A and previously taught architectural history at Queen Mary University of London. She wrote her doctoral thesis (UCL) on the role of nuns in the design and construction of nineteenth and twentieth-century convents - a subject upon which she has published and given numerous conference papers. Her current field of research is Benedictine architecture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is a former member of the Education Sub-committee of The Society of Architectural Historians Great Britain and currently serves on the Twentieth Century Society's Casework Committee. Ayla Lepine is a Visiting Fellow in Art History at the University of Essex. Her research focuses on the Gothic Revival and modern medievalism. She is Arts Editor of the Marginalia Review of Books and a trustee of Art and Christianity Enquiry.

She has published on Anglican monasticism, sacred visual culture, and the meanings of modern Gothic imagery in Architectural History , Visual Resources, Music and Modernism , The New Elizabethan Age , the Oxford History of Anglicanism , and the Church Times . She has co-edited Gothic Legacies: 400 Years of Tradition and Innovation in Art and Architecture (with Laura Cleaver, 2012) and Revival: Identities, Memories, Utopias (with Matt Lodder and Rosalind McKever, 2015).