Notes on Contributors
Axel Fliethmann
is Associate Professor in European Languages in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and has published widely on media philology and visual cultures. His publications include Stellenlektüre.Stifter.Foucault (2001), Texte über Bilder. Zur Gegenwart der Renaissance (2014). He is co-editor of Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies.
Michael Hau
is Associate Professor in Modern European History at Monash University. He has published extensively on the history of medicine and the body. His most recent book, Performance Anxiety: Sport and Work in Germany from the Empire to Nazism, has appeared with the University of Toronto Press in 2017. Currently he is working on a collaborative research project on the history of meritocracy in post-war Germany and Japan.
Birgit Lang
is Associate Professor in German at The University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the recipient of the collaborative ARC Discovery Project, Visual Evidence: Sex Research in Germany (1890s-1930s), funded by the Australian Government (with Katie Sutton, ANU). She has published widely on the German and Austrian history of sexuality, on exile and translation studies. Her recent co-authored monographs include What is Translation History? A Trust-Based Approach (with Andrea Rizzi and Anthony Pym) (2019) and A History of the Case Study: Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature (with Joy Damousi and Alison Lewis) (2017). She is series co-editor of Translation History (Palgrave).
Carolyn Lau
is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is currently co-editing an upcoming edited collection on the fictions and narratives of the symbiosis between humans, machines, and nature. Her research explores the potentialities of the human body in speculative literature and film.
Heikki Lempa
is a Professor of Modern European and German History at Moravian College. His interests are in German cultural and social history, the history of emotions, the body, education, masculinity, and honor. His most recent works include a forthcoming book Spaces of Honor. Making Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1914 (2021) and (co-edited with Derek Hillard and Russell Spinney) Feelings Materialized. Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Modern Germany (2020). Currently he is working on an edited volume Staging Authority and on a book-length monograph on the German practices of dancing, sports, and medicine in a global context, 1700-1914.
stef lenk
is an assistant researcher for the PathoGraphics project at the Free University, Berlin (2016-2020). She is interested in the practical application of academic research in graphic novels and illness narratives and is also a comic artist whose work has been exhibited at festivals throughout Europe and internationally. Her work can be seen at steflenk.com. She has an MSc Medical Art from the University of Dundee and also works as a freelance graphic designer and medical illustrator.
Joanna Madloch
is a scholar, writer and photographer currently based in New Jersey, USA, where she teaches at Montclair State University. She received her PhD in Humanities from the University of Silesia in Poland. Her scholarly work concentrates on the intersections between pictorial and textual phenomena and she is currently working on a book dedicated to the depiction of the photographer as a contemporary embodiment of the trickster archetype.
Barry Murnane
is Associate Professor in German at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor at St John’s College. He has published widely on Gothic literature since the eighteenth century, including a monograph on Franz Kafka, Verkehr mit Gespenstern (2008), and two co-edited volumes, Populäre Erscheinungen (2011) and Popular Revenants (2012). He is also interested in the relationship between literature and scientific discourses more generally, especially those between literature and pharmacy, and held a fellowship at the Science Museum in London (2016) to conduct research into pharmacy’s role as a “laboratory” of modernity.
Jill Redner
is an independent scholar, based in Melbourne. After teaching English Literature at the University of Melbourne, she turned to interdisciplinary research in Peace Studies and Memory Studies. She is co-author of a book on the Cold War, and of numerous articles in the fields of literature, politics, art, and the history of ideas. Her main research interest at present is in the contribution of religious dissent to new scientific thought during the Dutch Golden Age.
Claudia Stein
is Associate Professor in the history of medicine and science at the History Department at the University of Warwick. She works on the history of the body and disease, visual and material culture of science and medicine, and the history of biopower from the early modern period to today. She is currently writing a monograph on the history of human nature from the Renaissance to Modernity. She also has a special interest in the theories and methods of history writing and recently edited and contributed to The Cultural History of Medicine in the Renaissance (2020) (together with Elaine Leong).
Elizabeth Stephens
is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. She is the author of three monographs: Normality: A Critical Genealogy (2017), co-authored with Peter Cryle; Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present (2011); and Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet’s Fiction (2009). Her Future Fellowship examines practices of experimentation as a site of collaboration between the arts and sciences, from the nineteenth-century scientific laboratory to contemporary experimental art.
Corinna Wagner
is Associate Professor in Literature and the History of Art at the University of Exeter. She is also a photographer and creative writer. Her research interests include the relationship between medical history and the arts, the body in art, the history of photography, and Victorian Gothic literature and architecture. She has co-edited The Oxford Handbook to Victorian Medievalism and A Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine (2015). Her books include Pathological Bodies: Medicine and Political Culture (2013) and Art, Anatomy, and the Real (2021). Her next project, about water and the body, combines alternative photography and creative non-fiction.
Christiane Weller
is Associate Professor in European Languages in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. She has published widely on German travel writing and expeditions reports, contemporary German fiction and psychoanalytic theory, as well as on psychiatric art and psychosis and writing. She is the author of Das fremde Ich. Begegnungen im pazifisch-australischen Raum (2015) and the co-editor of Kosmopolitische Gedankenwelten / Cosmopolitan Imaginings (2019) and of Limbus: Austral-isches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies.