Afanasyeva Tatyana Igorevna, Doctor of Philology, Leading Researcher at the Vinogradov Institute of Russian Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of the Russian Language Department of the Faculty of Philology at St. Petersburg State University;
Galasheva Tatyana Nikolaevna, Junior Researcher at the Department of Old Russian Literature of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Executive Secretary);
Golovin Valentin Vadimovich, Doctor of Philology, Director of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom) of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
Goncharova Elena Ivanovna, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher at the Department of Contemporary Literature of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the publishing house “Pushkinskii Dom”;
Pigin Alexander Valerievich, Doctor of Philology, Head of the Department of Russian Folklore of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, acting Head of the Folklore Studies Sector with the Phonogram Archive of the Institute of Language, Literature and History of Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
Plyukhanova Maria Borisovna, PhD in Philology, Full Professor, Department of Letters, University of Perugia (Italy);
Rudenko Yuri Konstantinovich, Doctor of Philology, Professor at the Department of History of Western European and Russian Culture, Institute of History of St. Petersburg State University;
Thyret Isolde, PhD in History, Associate Professor of History at Kent State University (USA);
Ziffer Giorgio, PhD in Philology, Full Professor at the University of Udine (Italy).