Johannes Birgfeld
studied in Hamburg, London, and Bamberg, before completing his Ph.D. at the University of Saarbrücken in 2009. This work was printed in 2012 as Krieg und Aufklärung, a two-volume study of German speaking literature’s reaction to war experiences between 1700 and 1800. He has taught German literature after 1500 at the universities of Bamberg (1999–2003), Oxford (2006/07), and Saarbrücken (2003–present). His main areas of research are German literature of the eighteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, war and literature in the eighteenth century, and the history of theatre and drama in German from 1500 to today. He has published on a wide spectrum of writers and issues.
Anita Bunyan
is a Fellow and Director of Studies in Modern Languages at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She works on Modern Jewish-German and Jewish-Austrian cultural history and has published most recently on nineteenth-century authors such as Heinrich Heine and Berthold Auerbach, and on contemporary writers Henryk Broder and Robert and Eva Menasse.
Dirk Göttsche
is Professor of German at the University of Nottingham; Dr phil Münster 1986 (Die Produktivität der Sprachkrise in der modernen Prosa, 1987), Habilitation Münster 1999 (Zeit im Roman: Literarische Zeitreflexion und die Geschichte des Zeitromans im späten 18. und im 19. Jahrhundert, 2001). He is a member of the Academia Europaea, Honorary President of the International Raabe-Society, and Principal Investigator of the Leverhulme International Research Network “Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking Literary Realism(s) in Global Comparative Perspective” (2016–19). Further book publications include: Zeitreflexion und Zeitkritik im Werk Wilhelm Raabes (2000), Kleine Prosa in Moderne und Gegenwart (2006), Remembering Africa: The Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contemporary German Literature (2013), Realism and Romanticism in German Literature (ed. with Nicholas Saul, 2013), Raabe-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung (ed. with Florian Krobb and Rolf Parr, 2016), Handbuch Postkolonialismus und Literatur (ed. with Axel Dunker and Gabriele Dürbeck, 2017).
Caroline Mannweiler
After earning her Ph.D. with a thesis on Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre (L’éthique becketienne et sa réalisation dans la forme), Caroline Mannweiler joined the
Alex Marshall
studied French and German at the University of Edinburgh, and on graduating taught English as a Foreign Language for three years, which he has continued intermittently. He studied for his Master’s degree and then a doctorate in German at the University of Oxford, entitled Die uralte moderne Lösung: Nation, Space and Modernity in Austro-German Zionism before 1917. He has now taken up a Lectureship in German with TESOL at Sheffield Hallam University.
Dagmar Paulus
is a Senior Teaching Fellow in German Studies at University College London, UK. She received her Ph.D. in German Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK, in 2013, and her MA at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Her first book, Abgesang auf den Helden: Geschichte und Gedächtnispolitik in Wilhelm Raabes historischem Erzählen, was published in 2014. Other publications include contributions to the Storm and Raabe Handbooks and various articles on German Realism and nationalism. Her areas of expertise include nineteenth-century German literature, cultural memory, nationalism, and travel writing.
Ellen Pilsworth
is Lecturer in German and Translation Studies at the University of Reading. Her doctoral thesis (University College London, 2017) explored German war poetry between 1760 and 1815. Her current research interests include Romanticism, “1968” in Germany, and anti-fascism in Germany, Austria, and Britain.
Ernest Schonfield
is Lecturer in German at the University of Glasgow. His research interests include Vormärz literature (Heine, Büchner) and modern German novels (Fontane, Thomas Mann, Bachmann, Özdamar). His most recent publication is Business Rhetoric in German Novels: From Buddenbrooks to the Global Corporation (2018).