Aelita Ambrulevičiūtė
(PhD 2010) is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology and Social Work, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University. Her research area is economic and social change in Lithuania in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with special interest in urban history. Recent book (co-authored with Gintė Konstantinavičiūtė and Giedrė Polkaitė-Petkevičienė): Houses that Talk. Sketches of Everyday Life in Vokiečių Street in 19th–20th centuries (in Lithuanian, 2018).
Jürgen Barkhoff
is Professor of German (1776) at the Department of Germanic Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies at Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin. He teaches German literature and German and European cultural history from 1750 to the present. His main research areas are literature and medicine, science and psychology around 1800, questions of identity in the German speaking world and contemporary Swiss literature. He is also the Vice-Provost, Chief Academic Officer and Deputy-President of Trinity College and Vice-Chair of the Executive Board of the Coimbra Group of European Universities. From 2013 to 2018 he led the university-wide, interdisciplinary research theme ‘Identities in Transformation’.
Stefan Berger
is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He is also Executive Chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr and an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University. He has published widely in the fields of comparative labour history, the comparative history of regions of heavy industry, industrial heritage, memory history, the history of historiography and historical theory, as well as on British-German relations and the history of national identity and nationalism. His most recent monograph is The Past as History. National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Modern Europe (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015).
Zrinka Blažević
is Full Professor at the History Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Croatia). She has published four books: Pavao Ritter Vitezović, Croatia rediviva/ Croatia Revived (1998); Vitezovićeva Hrvatska između stvarnosti i utopije/ Vitezović’s Croatia Between Reality and
Daniel Carey
the Director of the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at the National University of Ireland Galway, is a graduate of McGill University, Trinity College Dublin, and Oxford University, where he took his DPhil. His book on Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson. Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2006. He has published edited volumes on Renaissance travel, Richard Hakluyt, Jonathan Swift, money and political economy in the eighteenth century, and the postcolonial enlightenment.
Luc van Doorslaer
is Chair Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Tartu (Estonia). Previously he was the director of CETRA, the Centre for Translation Studies at KU Leuven (Belgium). As a Professor Extraordinary he is affiliated with Stellenbosch University (South Africa). Since 2016 he has been Vice President of the EST, the European Society for Translation Studies. Together with Yves Gambier, he is the editor of the online Translation Studies Bibliography (2004-ongoing) and the four volumes of the Handbook of Translation Studies (2010–13). Other recent books edited include Eurocentrism in Translation Studies (2013), The Known Unknowns of Translation Studies (2014), Interconnecting Translation Studies and Imagology (2016), Border Crossings. Translation Studies and other Disciplines (2016) and The Situatedness of Translation Studies (2021). His main research interests are journalism and translation, ideology and translation, imagology and translation, institutionalisation of Translation Studies.
Ana María Fraile-Marcos
is Associate Professor of English at the University of Salamanca, Spain, where she teaches English, Canadian and Postcolonial Literatures. At present, she is the Head of the English Department and the Director of the Master in Creative Writing. Her major publications include Glocal Narratives of Resilience, ed. (Routledge, 2020); Literature and the Glocal City. Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary, ed. (Routledge, 2014); Richard Wright’s ‘Native Son, ed. (2007); Planteamientos estéticos y políticos en la obra de Zora Neale Hurston (2003), and numerous chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals. She coordinates the research project Narratives of Resilience. An Intersectional
Wulf Kansteiner
is Professor of History in the School of Culture and Society at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He is a cultural historian focused primarily on memory, media history, twentieth century Europe, and on representations of the Second World War and the Holocaust in Germany. He has published widely on these topics and is additionally co-editor and co-founder of the Sage Journal of Memory Studies.
Joep Leerssen
holds the chair of Modern European Literature in the Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam. He is one of the world’s leading experts in imagology and has published widely on the link between national (self-)images and nationalism; articles on these topics have appeared in Poetics Today, Nations and Nationalism, and the Journal of the British Academy. Among his book publications are the Handbook Imagology (co-edited with Manfred Beller, 2007), National Thought in Europe (3rd edn 2018), and the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe (2 vols; one of the TLS books of the year for 2018). He is recipient of the Mme de Staël Prize 2020 from ALLEA, the consortium of European Academies, for his contribution to the cultural values of Europe.
Hercules (Iraklis) Millas
was brought up in Turkey and presently lives in Greece. He is an independent author. He has a Ph.D. degree in political science and a B.Sc. in civil engineering. During the period 1990–1995 he contributed to establishing the Greek department at Ankara University and from 1999 to 2008 he taught Turkish literature and Turkish political thought in various Greek Universities.
Zenonas Norkus
(PhD 1984, Habilitation 2002) is Professor at the Institute of Sociology and Social Work, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University. His book publications include Max Weber und Rational Choice (in German, 2001); Which Democracy, Which Capitalism? Post-communist Transformation in Lithuania from the Viewpoint of Comparative Historical Sociology (2008); An Unproclaimed Empire. Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the Viewpoint of Comparative Historical Sociology (2009); On Baltic Slovenia and Adriatic Lithuania. A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Patterns in Post-Communist Transformation (in English, 2012), Two Twenty-Year Periods of Independence. Capitalism, Class and Democracy from the Point of View of Comparative Historical Sociology (2014).
received his PhD from the European University Institute and teaches at the University of Rijeka. He is the author of Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities. Performing Contradictions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and has edited Ireland, West to East, Irish Cultural Connections with Central and Eastern Europe (with Eve Patten, Peter Lang, 2014), and a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies 17:2 (August 2013) on ‘Myths of Europe. East of Venice’. He has also published other articles and chapters that take translational and transnational perspectives on Irish literature and culture.
Raúl Sánchez Prieto
is Professor of German at the Department of Modern Philology of the University of Salamanca, where he teaches German linguistics. His main research interests focus on German-Spanish contrastive linguistics, particularly contrastive media discourse analysis, and language conflict. He has been the principal investigator in several research projects related to computer-mediated communication.
Karel Šima
is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. He earned his PhD from Charles University in history and anthropology with a thesis on Czech national festive culture in the nineteenth century. His research interests include cultural nationalism and the role of performance within national movements, but also subcultures and Do-It-Yourself activism, history of concepts and narrativism in historiography. He has published journal articles on national festive culture, nationalist choral societies, relations between history and anthropology, and co-authored books on the Humboldtian model of universities and ethnography of higher education departments.
Ruth Wodak
is Emerita Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University, UK and affiliated to the University of Vienna. Besides many other prizes, she was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize for Elite Researchers in 1996. 2008, she was awarded the Kerstin Hesselgren Chair of the Swedish Parliament and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Örebro in Sweden in 2010 and an Honorary Doctorate at Warwick University in 2020. In 2011, she was awarded the Grand Decoration in Silver for Services for the Austrian Republic, in 2018 the Life-Achievement Prize of the Austrian Ministry of Women. She is a member of the British Academy of Social Sciences and the Academia Europea,