About the authors
is Full Professor of American Studies and Intermediality at the University of Graz, Austria, and Director of the Centre for Intermediality Studies in Graz (CIMIG). Earlier, she taught at the universities of Mainz, Paderborn, and Regensburg, and at the University of California, Davis. Her publications and research interests include American literature and culture (predominantly from the eighteenth through the 21st centuries), adaptation and intermedial relations (as in From Fiction to Libretto: Irving, Hawthorne, and James as Opera, 2005, and in the edited volume Adaptation and American Studies, 2011), life writing across media (as in Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies, 2018, co-edited with Ina Bergmann), intermedial hip hop culture, climate change drama, US American and Canadian theater and performance, African American literature and culture, and the poet laureate traditions in the US and in Canada. She has also published widely on Vladimir Nabokov’s works and is co-editor of the Nabokov Online Journal.
is a postdoc in American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, and currently serves as board member of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS). Before coming to Vienna, he worked as a research and teaching assistant at the universities of Graz and Salzburg. He holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Vienna (2015), and his dissertation was awarded the 2016 Fulbright Prize in American Studies (Austria) and was honored as the “runner-up” for the 2017 Obama Dissertation Prize (Germany). His monograph Performing America Abroad: Transnational Cultural Politics in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism was published in 2018. In his ongoing postdoc project, “Revolutionary Laughter,” he is concerned with the relationship of humor and the public sphere in late-eighteenth-century America. In this context, he is currently co-editing (with Ralph J. Poole) a volume on Gender and Comedy in the Age of the American Revolution.
is Professor of English Literature at the University of Graz, Austria. Her publications include Edward Bond: Dialog und Sprachgestus (1999), Migration and Fiction: Narratives of Migration in Contemporary Canadian Literature (co-edited with Martin Löschnigg, 2009), and The Contemporary Canadian Short Story in English (2014). She has published articles on Canadian authors such as Mavis Gallant, Di Brandt, and Alice Munro and on subjects such as the short story cycle, African literature, Jane Austen, epistolary fiction, eco literature, and modern drama. Her most recent edited books are The Epistolary Renaissance: A Critical Approach to Contemporary Letter Narratives in Anglophone Fiction (2018, with Rebekka Schuh), The Anglo-Canadian Novel in the Twenty-First Century (2019, with Martin Löschnigg), and Green Matters: Ecocultural Functions of Literature (2019, with Melanie Braunecker). Currently, she is preparing a monograph on the Canadian short story for a Routledge book series on Canadian literature for graduate/undergraduate audiences.
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