Penelope J. Corfield
is Professor Emeritus of History at Royal Holloway, University of London, Visiting Fellow at Newcastle University UK, and President of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Her writings focus upon British social, cultural and urban history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as upon general theories of history. On that big theme, she published Time and the Shape of History (Yale University Press, 2007); and she contributed an essay on Time and the Historians in the Age of Relativity, in Alexander C. T. Geppert and Till Kössler (ed.), Obsession der Gegenwart: Zeit im 20. Jahrhundert / Obsession with the Here-and-Now: Concepts of Time in the Twentieth Century (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015). Currently, she has a big book in the publication pipeline (for January 2021) entitled The Georgians: The Deeds and Misdeeds of Eighteenth-Century Britain.
Kristin Eichhorn
is Assistant Professor for Modern German Studies at Paderborn University (Germany) and board member of the German Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (dgej) since 2018. She has written her PhD thesis on the German fables of the Enlightenment (Die Kunst des moralischen Dichtens. Positionen der aufklärerischen Fabeldiskussion im 18. Jahrhundert; Würzburg: Ergon 2013) and is, along with Lothar van Laak, co-editor of the forthcoming book Kulturen der Moral (Hamburg: Meiner 2021) to which she contributed the article Moralische Ästhetik. Konzepte ‘nützlicher’ Literatur im 18. Jahrhundert. She is also founder and editor of the journal Expressionismus and she has recently published a book (her post-doctoral lecture qualification, ‘Habilitation’) on Johannes R. Becher (Johannes R. Becher und die literarische Moderne. Eine Neubestimmung; Bielefeld: transcript 2020).
Matthew O. Grenby
is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies and Dean of Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle University UK. He was President of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (bsecs) from 2015 to 2018, and is currently the bsecs representative to the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He has published books and essays on children’s literature and culture, children and heritage, political fiction, and cheap print. In addition, he is now the Principal Investigator on a project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research
Anna-Marie Humbert
is a part-time lecturer at the University of Potsdam and curator at the Literaturhaus Berlin. Her fields of interest include Contemporary German Literature, Ecocriticism, and Cultural and Literary Animal Studies. She has recently co-edited a volume on the work of German writer Daniel Kehlmann (Daniel Kehlmann und die Gegenwartsliteratur, Berlin: De Gruyter 2020) and she is currently working on weather phenomena in German drama of the early nineteenth century.
Halima Ouanada
est enseignante-chercheuse de littérature française du xviiième siècle à l’Université de Tunis El Manar, Présidente de l’Association Tunisienne des Études sur les Lumières (atel) et membre de la Société Voltaire et de la Société Internationale d’Études du xviiième Siècle (sieds). Elle est auteure de La Femme chez Voltaire, Tunis, éd. Arabesque 2011; Térence un poète comique intemporel, éd. Finzi, Tunis 2007; (Re)penser le féminin (sous dir.), L’Harmattan, Paris 2020. Elle a, en outre, écrit plusieurs articles sur le xviiie siècle.
Jürgen Overhoff
is Professor for the History of Education at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. He is President of the German Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (since 2018) and Delegate Member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for eighteenth-Century Studies (isecs) since 2018. He is Director of the Center for German-American Educational History at the University of Münster and the General Editor of the Series Studies on German-American Educational History. He has edited a variety of volumes and articles on different aspects of the Age of Enlightenment. He is also one of the editors of the bilingual (French-German) Potsdam standard edition of the works of the Prussian King Frederick the Great (Werke des Philosophen von Sanssouci / Œuvres du Philosophe de Sans-Souci; Friedrich der Große/Fréderic le Grand).
Kendra Packham
is a Research Associate at Newcastle University UK, where she is part of the project team for the AHRC-funded digital humanities project, Eighteenth-Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture (ecppec). She specializes in the relations between literature and political culture in the early
Antônio Carlos dos Santos
is Full Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil, since 1992. He did a postdoctoral internship at the University of Sherbrooke (2009), Canada, and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris i – Sorbonne (2018). He defended his doctoral thesis in philosophy at the University of Paris x – Nanterre, France (2004). His research into political philosophy revolves around seventeenth-century England, notably John Locke, and eighteenth-century France, particularly Montesquieu. He is currently a Delegate Member of the Brazilian Association of Studies of the eighteenth Century (since 2018) on the isecs Executive Committee. He has published several articles in specialist magazines, book chapters and books, among which the following are particularly notable: The Two-Way Street: Tolerance and Politics in Montesquieu (2007), Denied Politics: Power and Corruption in Montesquieu (2004) and The Self in Words (2018).
Vanessa de Senarclens
est enseignante-chercheuse affiliée à l’Université Humboldt de Berlin où elle a soutenu sa thèse d’habilitation en 2016. Elle est membre du comité exécutif de la société des dix-huitièmistes allemands depuis 2019. Ses travaux portent d’abord sur la littérature française du dix-huitième (Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire), également dans la perspective du transfert culturel. Elle a coédité avec Jürgen Overhoff une édition des œuvres poétiques de Frédéric ii. Ses recherches actuelles portent sur l’histoire d’une bibliothèque des Lumières. Sur ce sujet a paru récemment un article retraçant les cheminements d’un volume de Voltaire, depuis sa parution clandestine à Genève jusque dans le dépôt d’une bibliothèque universitaire en Pologne, suite aux déplacements de la frontière germano-polonaise scellés par les accords de Potsdam de 1945: Verlegt, verwahrt und vergessen. Die Bücher aus den ehemaligen deutschen Bibliotheken in Polen in: Merkur. Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken (octobre 2020).
is Professor for Early Modern German Literature at the University of Potsdam. She was President of the German Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2014–18; 2008–10 Vice-President) and has been an Elected Member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (isecs) since 2019. She is the general editor of the German Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ journal Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert. In addition to numerous publications on German literary and cultural history (16th–18th c.), she has recently authored a monograph on the cultural history of riding manuals in the Early Modern period: Ars Equitandi. Eine Kulturgeschichte der Reitlehre in der Frühen Neuzeit (Hanover: Wehrhahn 2020).
Annika Windahl Pontén
is visitors’ coordinator at Uppsala University and Uppsala University Library, Sweden. She holds a PhD in history of ideas and science, and her thesis (2020) is on identity and materiality in the household of Carl Linnaeus. She is an Elected Member of the Executive Committee of isecs and Treasurer of the Swedish Society for Eighteenth-Century studies. In 2007 she was the project leader for the Linnaeus tercentenary at Uppsala University and she has also worked at a number of museums, including the Linnaeus Museum in Uppsala. She has published articles on dance and music as well as on clothes and textiles in the Linnaeus family. Examples include En tofs af krusat getragg och fotfodral av matskeväf, Svenska Linnésällskapets Årsbok (Uppsala 2010) and, together with Roger Tallroth, ‘Beständigt menuett och polska’. Om musik och dans i familjen Linné, Svenska Linnésällskapets årsbok (Uppsala 2017). She was also co-editor of Låt inte råttor eller mal fördärva: Linnésamlingar i Uppsala. Uppsala universitets jubileumsbok (Uppsala 2007).