Damir Arsenijević
is Professor of Literary and Cultural studies at the Department of English, University of Tuzla, and a psychoanalyst in training. Among his books are Gender, Literature, and Cultural Memory in the Post-Yugoslav Space (co-author, 2009), Forgotten Future: The Politics of Poetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2010), and Unbribable Bosnia: The Fight for the Commons (2015). His forthcoming book is Love after Genocide.
Luiza Bialasiewicz
is Professor of European Governance at the University of Amsterdam. Among her books are Spazio e Politica: Riflessioni di geografia critica (w. C. Minca, 2004), Europe in the World: EU Geopolitics and the Making of European Space (ed., 2011) and Spaces of Tolerance: Changing Geographies and Philosophies of Religion in Today’s Europe (co-ed. w. V. Gentile, 2019).
Vladimir Biti
Emeritus Chair Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, is currently Distinguished Chair Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University. Author of Literatur- und Kulturtheorie: Ein Handbuch gegenwärtiger Begriffe, Rowohlt, 2001, Tracing Global Democracy: Literature, Theory, and the Politics of Trauma, De Gruyter, 2016 (second, paperback edition 2017), and Attached to Dispossession: Sacrificial Narratives in Post-imperial Europe, Brill, 2018, among others. Editor of the volumes Reexamining the National-Philological Legacy: Quest for a New Paradigm, Rodopi, 2014 and Claiming the Dispossession: The Politics of Hi/Storytelling in Post-imperial Europe, Brill, 2017, among others. Co-editor of arcadia: International Journal of Literary Culture and Chair of the Academy of Europe’s Literary and Theatrical Section.
Lucia Boldrini
is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Among her books are Autobiographies of Others: Historical Subjects and Literary Fiction (2012) and Experiments in Life-Writing: Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction (ed. with Julia Novak, 2017).
Gerard Delanty
is Professor of Sociology and Social & Political Thought at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. He worked as fellow and visiting professor at York University,
César Domínguez
is associate professor of Comparative Literature of the University of Santiago de Compostela. Among his books are Literatura europea comparada (ed., 2013), Cosmopolitanism and the Postnational: Literature and the New Europe (ed. with Theo D’haen, 2015), Introducing Comparative Literature: New Methods and Applications (w. Dario Villanueva & Haun Saussy, 2015); he is co-editor of the Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula (2007–16)
Nikol Dziub
is a faculty member of the Université de Haute-Alsace. Among her books are L’Ashiq et le troubadour (co-ed., 2017), «Son arme était la harpe»: Pouvoirs de la femme et du barde chez Nizami et dans Le Livre de Dede Korkut (2018), Voyages en Andalousie au XIXe siècle (2018), Traduction et interculturalité. Entre identité et altérité (co-ed., 2019), Comparative Literature in Europe: Challenges and Perspectives (co-ed., 2019).
Rodolphe Gasché
is Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature and SUNY Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at SUNY (Buffalo). Among his books are The Honor of Thinking: Critique, Theory, Philosophy (2006), Europe, Or The Infinite Task (2008), The Stelliferous Fold: Toward a Virtual Law of Literature’s Self-Formation (2011), Geophilosophy (2014), Storytelling and the Destruction of the Inalienable in the Age of the Holocaust (2018).
Aage Hansen-Löve
is Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature at Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München. Currently, he is teaching at the Institute of Comparative Studies at the University of Vienna. Since 1999, he is member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is also founder and editor of the journal Wiener Slawistischer
Shigemi Inaga
is Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, and between 2016 and 2018 served as its Deputy Director-General and also served as Dean of the Post-Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama. Among his books are L’Orient de la peinture : de l’Orientalisme au Japonisme (1999), Images on the Edge: A Historical Survey of East-Asian Trans-Cultural Modernities (2014), In Search of Haptic Plasticity (2016), as well as Modernity of Japanese Art History and its Exterior (2018).
Joep Leerssen
is Professor of Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam. Among his books are Imagology (ed. W. Manfred Beller, 2007), National Thought in Europe (3rd ed. 2018), Spiegelpaleis Europa (3rd ed. 2015); The Rhine (ed. W. Manfred Beller 2018) and Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe (ed., 2018). He was awarded the All European Academies’ Madame de Staël Prize 2020 for Cultural Values.
Vivian Liska
is Professor of German at the University of Antwerp, Belgium as well as Distinguished Visiting Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has published extensively on German Modernism and Literary Theory. Her most recent book is titled German-Jewish Thought and its Afterlife. A Tenuous Legacy (Indiana UP, 2017)