Daniel Baric
studied history and philology (Slavic, German and Hungarian) in Paris, Berlin, and Budapest. He was assistant professor at the Department of German Studies in Tours before joining the Department of Slavic Studies of the Sorbonne Université in 2018. His teaching and research focus mainly on the cultural history of South Slavs, especially on cultural transfers from the early nineteenth century to the present, exploring various sources ranging from texts and persons to institutions (such as libraries). He published Langue allemande, identité croate: Au fondement d’un particularisme culturel, Paris, 2013 (also available in Croatian: Zagreb, 2015).
Benjamin Bossaert
studied Eastern European Languages and Cultures (Russian, Czech and Slovak) at the University of Ghent and at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava (Slovakia). He is currently working as a lecturer in Dutch language and culture in the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch studies at the Comenius University in Bratislava. He is also involved in a Ph.D. study programme at Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Wilken Engelbrecht, where he does comparative research on the Flemish and Slovak national movements. He engages in theory of literature, literary translations from Slovak, Dutch language acquisition, and (cultural) history.
Marijan Dović
is Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the ZRC SAZU Institute of the Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies (Ljubljana). He also lectures at the Faculty of Arts (University of Ljubljana) and the School of Humanities (University of Nova Gorica). His books include Sistemske in empirične obravnave literature (Systemic and Empirical Approaches to Literature, 2004), Slovenski pisatelj (The Slovenian Writer, 2007), Mož z bombami (The Man with the Bombs, 2009), Prešeren po Prešernu (Prešeren after Prešeren, 2017), and National Poets, Cultural Saints: Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe (with J.K. Helgason, 2017). He has co-edited thematic volumes on literature and censorship, publishing, book history, the spatial turn in literary studies, and literature and music. His major publications in English address Romanticism, European cultural nationalism, national poets and ‘cultural saints’, the literary canon, systems theory, the interwar avant-garde in the Balkans, and
Liljana Gushevska
is a professor in the Department of History of the Balkans and Macedonia (1800–1914) at the Institute of National History in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. Her research interests are history of the Macedonian language and Macedonian literature, as well as the history of the Macedonian national movement in the nineteenth and at the beginning of the twentieth century. She is also a part-time professor at the Department of Macedonian Language and Literature at the University of Tetovo.
Jörg Hackmann
is Alfred Döblin Professor of East European History at the Department of History and International Relations, University of Szczecin, Poland, and is also associated with the University of Greifswald, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. from the Free University Berlin and has been a visiting scholar at many universities in the Baltic Sea region, among others in Riga, Stockholm, Tartu, und Turku, as well as in Chicago. His research interests focus on the entangled history of East Central Europe, on memory cultures and history politics, and on the history of civil society in North Eastern Europe.
Roisín Higgins
is a Reader in Modern History at Teesside University. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of St Andrews and has lectured at universities in Ireland, England, and Scotland. Her research focuses on social and cultural history, with particular interest in the politics of historical memory. Her book Transforming 1916: Meaning, Memory and the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Easter Rising (2012) was awarded the ACIS James S. Donnelly Sr Prize for the best book in History and Social Science. In 2016 she was involved in many aspects of the Centenary of the Easter Rising, invited to deliver keynote lectures in Australia, America and Europe, and to give public lectures in Ireland and Britain. She is also the leader of a public history project exploring the lives of women and widows after the First World War. She was one of the curators for National Treasures, a public history project run in association with RTÉ, the National Museum of Ireland, and the Irish Broadcasting Authority.
Alfonso Iglesias Amorín
is a postdoctoral fellow in the History Department of the University of Santiago de Compostela and member of the research group HISPONA (Political
Dagmar Kročanová
graduated from Comenius University in Bratislava in Slovak, Russian and English linguistics and literatures, and completed her Ph.D. at the same university in 1997 on the theory and history of Slovak literature. She has also studied at University College London and at Indiana State University in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. From 2006 to 2012 she taught Slovak at Bologna University in Forlì, Italy. She is an Associate Professor (Reader) at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia), where she currently heads the Department of Slovak Literature and Literary Studies. She teaches and researches twentieth-century Slovak prose and drama. She has edited several books by early twentieth-century Slovak writers. Her monograph on Slovak drama and theatre between 1945 and 1949, entitled Nerozrezaná dráma (Uncut Drama), was published in 2007. She publishes in Slovak and English, and occasionally translates from English.
Joep Leerssen
is Professor of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, where he leads the Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms (SPIN). A comparatist by training, his research deals with the intellectual and cultural history of national movements in Europe, the history and theory of cultural and national (self-)stereotyping, and the history of the humanities. Among the books he has authored or (co-)edited are Imagology (with Manfred Beller, 2007), National Thought in Europe (3rd ed. 2018), Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe (with Ann Rigney, 2014), The Rhine: Romantic Visions, National Tensions (with Manfred Beller, 2017), and the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe (Amsterdam University Press, 2018, online at ernie.uva.nl).
Marion Löffler
completed her Ph.D. at the Humboldt University in Berlin and was appointed a Research Fellow at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in Aberystwyth in 1994. She regularly appears on Welsh radio and television, and is Assistant Editor of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. She is currently a Reader at Cardiff University whose research focuses on the cultural and economic entanglements of nineteenth-century Wales with Europe,
Philippe Martel
completed his Ph.D. in History in 1993 with a study of Les félibres et leur temps, 1850–1914.
From 1983 to 2009 he was an investigator at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, and from 2009 to 2015 Professor in the Occitan Department at the Université Paul-Valéry in Montpellier. His specialty is the cultural history of Southern France, more precisely the history of the Occitan renaissance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His major works include Les Cathares et l’histoire (Toulouse: Privat, 2002); Les félibres et leur temps, 1850–1914 (Bordeaux: Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2010); L’école française et l’occitan: le sourd et le bègue (Montpellier: PULM, 2007); Études de langue et d’histoire occitanes (Limoges: Lambert-Lucas, 2016); and Vidas, des hommes et une langue (Limoges: Lambert-Lucas, 2018).
Alexei Miller
is Professor and Director of the Center for Studies in Cultural Memory and Symbolic Politics at the European University at Saint Petersburg. He has published many books and edited volumes on comparative history of Empires, nationalism, history of ideas and concepts, memory politics.
Xosé M. Núñez Seixas
completed his Ph.D. at EUI Florence, and is Full Professor of Modern History at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He has published widely on the comparative history of nationalist movements and national and regional identities, as well as on overseas migration from Spain and Galicia to Latin America, and on the cultural history of war in the twentieth century. Among his most recent books are Suspiros de España: El nacionalismo español, 1808–2018 (Barcelona, 2018) and (coedited with E. Storm) Regionalism and Modern Europe: Identity Constructions and Movements from 1890 to the Present Day (London, 2018).
Iryna Orlevych
is currently Head of the Department of New History of Ukraine at the I. Kryp’yakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Lviv), and a researcher at the Lviv Museum of the History of Religion. She graduated from the History Department of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, and from 1995 to 1998 she was a graduate student at the I.
Magdaléna Pokorná
lectures on history at the Faculty of Arts (Department of Czech History) at the Charles University in Prague and works as a historian in the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She focuses on the development of historical consciousness in Czech literature and journalism in the nineteenth century, on the history and development of Czech scientific institutions, and on the early years of Franz Joseph’s reign (to 1859). She explores problems of censorship and collaborates on the editions of correspondence of important Czech personalities such as Božena Němcová and Karel Havlíček.
Miloš Řezník
is a historian and Director of the German Historical Institute at Warsaw (since 2014). He completed his Ph.D. in history at the Charles University in Prague (1989–1994) with a thesis on territorial patriotism in Polish Prussia in the eighteenth century (2001). Habilitation at the University of Olomouc in 2007. In 1995–96 he was a specialist advisor for Poland at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic; from 1998–2001 at the Charles University in Prague; in 2001–02 researcher at the Research Centre for History and Culture of East-Central Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig; from 2002–2008 junior professor; and since 2009 Professor of European Regional History at the University of Chemnitz and since 2009 Co-Chair of the Czech-German Historians’ Commission. His fields of research include Polish history, the Habsburg monarchy, nation-building, collective identities, historical memory, elites; and history from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
Jan Rock
is Assistant Professor of modern Dutch literature and culture at the University of Amsterdam. He is assistant editor of the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe, edited by Joep Leerssen. He has published on cultural nationalism and the history of vernacular philology in the Low Countries, in Science in
Diliara M. Usmanova
is a professor of Russian history at the Kazan Federal University (Russia). She was a visiting fellow at SFB-640 at Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany, 2009–11), and a foreign visiting professorial fellow at the SRC at Hokkaido University (Japan, 2014). Her research interests include the modern political history of Imperial Russia, the history of Muslims in Russia, the socio-cultural history of Tatars, and visual history of Russia in the late Imperial period. Diliara Usmanova has participated in the international joint projects Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia (1996–98) and Islamic Education in the USSR and its Successor States (2002–05), whose results were published in several volumes. Along with many articles and chapters in collective monographs and international volumes, she has authored (in Russian) the books Muslim Representatives in the Russian Parliament, 1906–1916 (Kazan, 2005), Deputies from Kazan Province in the State Duma of Russia, 1906–1917 (Kazan, 2006), and Muslim Sects in Imperial Russia: The Vaisov Holy Regiment of Muslim Old Believers (Kazan, 2009).
Zsuzsanna Varga
studied English, Hungarian, and Portuguese language and literature at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and completed her Ph.D. in nineteenth-century English literature at Edinburgh University. Since 2008 she has taught Hungarian Studies at Glasgow University, and she is also in charge of the Hungarian library collection at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include nineteenth-century women’s writing, travel writing, and translation history. Her recent publications include Worlds of Hungarian Writing (with András Kiséry and Zsolt Komáromy, 2016), Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe (with Dorota Ostrowska and Francesco Pitassio, 2017), and Antal Szerb: Reflections in the Library: Selected Literary Essays 1926–1944 (2017).