Natascha Bing
holds an ma in African Studies and Political Science from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. In 2017, she completed her PhD at the Institute of African Studies at Leipzig University where she worked as a research associate and lecturer. In her dissertation, she analysed linguistic practices in the postcolonial and heterogeneous setting of Kenya’s capital Nairobi. Recently, Natascha Bing extended her research towards the analysis of postcolonial linguistics and humanitarian assistance in an urban context, particularly in everyday practices in dynamic and heterogeneous settings.
Sandra Dinter
is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in English Literature and Culture at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany. Her research interests include representations of gender and space, adaptation studies, literary and cultural theory, (neo-)Victorian Studies, and narrative fiction about and for children. Currently, she is researching female pedestrianism in nineteenth-century British culture and literature. She is the author of Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel (Routledge, 2019) and co-editor of Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Literature, Media and Society (Routledge, 2018).
Prachi Gupta
is a doctoral student at the Centre for Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. The title of her PhD thesis is “Language, Religion and the Nation: A Critical Analysis of the Works of Ramchandra Shukla and Hazari Prasad Dwivedi.”
Ralf Haekel
is Professor of British Literature at Leipzig University, Germany. His main research interests are Romantic Studies, Early Modern Drama and Theatre, Irish Studies, and Literary Media Studies. In 2003, he received his PhD from Free University Berlin and, in 2013, his Habilitation from Göttingen University. His publications include the monograph The Soul in British Romanticism: Negotiating Human Nature in Philosophy, Science and Poetry (wvt, 2014) and the co-edited collection Community, Seriality, and the State of the Nation: British and Irish Television Series in the 21st Century (Narr, 2019). Ralf Haekel is editor of the Handbook of British Romanticism (De Gruyter, 2017).
studied English and German Literature at lmu Munich where she completed her studies in 2011. Since then, she has been working in the English Department of lmu Munich. In 2019, she published her first book The Common Bond of the Sea: Derek Walcott und Joseph Conrad (Fink). Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher in the research unit “Philology of Adventure” funded by the German Research Foundation. Her research focuses on Victorian, modernist, and postcolonial adventure fiction.
Idreas Khandy
is currently enrolled in the PhD programme in Politics at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom where he focuses on Kashmiri nationalism. His research interests include pop culture, social movements, capitalism, and the future of the nation-state.
Theresa Krampe
holds an ma in National and Transnational Studies from Münster University, Germany. Her ma thesis, parts of which have been published in Game Studies (2018), focuses on identity politics in role-playing games from a queer game studies perspective. Since 2018, she has been a doctoral candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (gcsc) in Gießen where she researches forms of metareference in videogames.
Lukas Lammers
is Assistant Professor at Free University Berlin, Germany, where he teaches English literature and cultural studies. His research focuses on historical fiction, questions of cultural memory and identity, early modern drama, World War ii, and processes of decolonisation. His monograph Shakespearean Temporalities was published with Routledge in 2018. He is co-editor of Shakespeare Seminar and regularly reviews performances for the Shakespeare Jahrbuch.
Johanna Marquardt’s
research concerns Irish literature of the mid-twentieth century, particularly Brian O’Nolan’s literary and journalistic work and its production and reception contexts. She holds a degree in English literature and linguistics, political science, and didactics from Leibniz University, Hanover, and teaches English literature and cultural studies with a focus on Ireland at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.
is a PhD candidate in Anglophone Literary Cultures and Global South Studies at the University of Tübingen and Konrad Adenauer fellowship holder in Germany. She was born and raised in Trinidad, obtained her Bachelor of Arts in German Studies and Environmental Studies at Bowdoin College (Brunswick, me) and her Master of Arts in English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Tübingen. Her current dissertation research focuses on archives of perceived change from independence into the postcolonial, specifically in Trinidad and Tobago through calypso lyrics. Her research interests include the Global South and the Caribbean, gastropoetics in literary theory, archives, collective memory, cultures of memorialisation and celebration, as well as entanglements between ideas of nature and culture.
Hannah Pardey
is a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the University of Hanover, Germany. She teaches British literatures and cultures from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century with a strong focus on postcolonial literatures in English and theories and methods of literary studies. Her master’s thesis “Historiographic Metafiction from the Nigerian Diaspora” received the gaps Graduate Award (complimentary prize) in 2016. Her dissertation project, “Postcolonial Middlebrow: The New Nigerian Novel,” concerns the conditions of production, distribution, and reception of recent Nigerian fictions.
Sina Schuhmaier
is an academic staff member and doctoral student at the University of Mannheim’s chair of English Literary and Cultural Studies. In her doctoral thesis, she examines a range of contemporary song lyrics centred on, and generally critical towards, the English nation. She investigates the conceptions of nation and national identity articulated in these lyrics, the positionings of national and cultural identity assumed and rejected, and the wider context of British popular music and the nation, considered through the lenses of cultural and postcolonial studies. Further research interests comprise contemporary British television drama, Black British literature, and literature and economy. She has published on bbc Two’s Peaky Blinders and is currently co-editing a volume on contemporary literature and recent critiques of capitalism, Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus: Fallbeispiele aus dem 21. Jahrhundert (Narr Francke Attempto, 2021).
holds a PhD from the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Goethe University Frankfurt, and an ma degree in English, French, and Portuguese philology. She works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. Her first monograph titled Carnivalizing Reconciliation will appear with Berghahn in 2021. Hanna Teichler is the co-editor (with Rebekah Vince) of the new book series Mobilizing Memories and the Handbook Series in Memory Studies (Brill Publishing) and a member of the msa Executive Committee, the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, and gaps.
Michael Westphal
is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Variation Linguistics at the English Department of the University of Münster, Germany, where he received his PhD in 2016. He also studied and conducted research at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Kingston, Jamaica. Michael Westphal is the author of Language Variation on Jamaican Radio (Benjamins, 2017). He is currently working on his postdoctoral project “Question Tags Across Englishes: A Variational Pragmatic Analysis.” His further research interests include (postcolonial) varieties of English with a focus on the Caribbean, the sociolinguistics of globalisation, language attitudes, variational pragmatics, and language in the media.