Acknowledgments
We wish to express our gratitude to the contributors for their excellent work and dedication in bringing to fruition the volume, Heinrich von Kleist: Artistic and Aesthetic Legacies, which evolved over five panels over the course of thirteen years at the annual conference of the German Studies Association (GSA) from 2007–2019. This unusually long and successful run at the GSA would not have been possible without the support of GSA Executive Director Professor David E. Barclay (Kalamazoo College), who initially suggested a series of Kleist panels to run from 2007 until the 200th anniversary of Kleist’s death in 2011, which was extended to include sessions from 2018–2019. For this we thank him, the GSA, and, GSA Operations Director Elizabeth Fulton for her outstanding service as an administrator.
The volume would not have been possible without the generous support of California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Portland State University, including two Research and Scholarly Activity awards in support of Jeffrey L. High for research on and editing of the book. We would also like to thank CSULB for a Graduate Research Summer Stipend in support of Emily Wysocki (CSULB), and for a Graduate Research Stipend in support of Natalie Martz (University of Oxford). We would like to thank them both, as well as Danna De Boer (Universität Darmstadt) for their many hours of collaboration in the preparation of manuscripts, as well as for their research and administrative support. A number of former and current students of the editors at CSULB were central to the preparation of individual chapters, including Rebecca Stewart-Gray (Concordia College), Elaine Chen (Harvard), and Courtney Yamagiwa (McGeorge School of Law), and we wish to thank them for their close readings of select manuscripts, fact-checking, and research support. We also owe a debt of gratitude to Xochitl San Vicente (CSULB) and Glen Gray (Johns Hopkins University), who performed proofreading of select chapters of the manuscript. Our sincere thanks (once again) to Natalie Martz, Emily Wysocki, Elaine Chen, Matthew Tang (University of Oxford), Glen Gray, and to Luke Beller (Johns Hopkins University) for their creation of the index. We would also like to thank Aldo González for his work on the cover design. We are very grateful to our two outside reviewers for their thorough and insightful readings of the manuscript and their important suggestions. Finally, we are deeply indebted to Masja Horn, Christa Stevens, Dinah Rapliza, and William Donahue at Brill for their advice, support, and patience.