Notes on Contributors
Kerstin Cuhls
(Ph.D. 1966) is Scientific Project Manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Professor of Japanology at the Center of East Asian Studies at the University of Heidelberg. Her research is in foresight and time.
Emily DiCarlo
is an independent artist and scholar whose interdisciplinary practice focuses on temporality, site and collaboration. Her research has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
Ralph Gutknecht
(Ph.D. 1990) is Scientific Project Manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) in Karlsruhe, Germany. With a background in Psychology, his research focuses on foresight and the interaction between humans and technology.
Paul A. Harris
is Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. He served as President of the ISST from 2004–2013 and is co-editor of SubStance journal. Current projects include complementary books tentatively titled Stone Dialogues and A Life Written in Stone.
Karen Heald
is Professor of Interdisciplinary Art Practice at Wrexham University, UK. Her film work explores concepts of time, site, and creativity, from a painterly perspective. She collaborates broadly and disseminates her research globally via artist residencies, exhibiting in gallery contexts and non-traditional spaces, film festivals, conferences, and writing for publications.
Thomas Kantermann
(Ph.D. 1979) is Professor of Health Psychology at FOM University of Applied Sciences (Germany). He is Director of the Institute for Labour & Personnel and Research Academy (FOM). His research focuses on human chronobiology and sleep.
Ritsuko Matsumura
is a biologist studying molecular mechanisms of the mammalian circadian clock. She earned her Ph.D. in Agronomy from Kyushu University and has been serving as an Assistant Professor at Yamaguchi University’s Research Institute for Time Studies.
Arkadiusz Misztal
is Professor in American Studies at Gdańsk University. He has published work on contemporary fiction, narrative theory, and the philosophy of time, including Time in Variance (2021), co-edited with Paul Harris and Jo Alyson Parker.
Friederike Mork-Antony
a hospital psychologist, has worked for several years as a research assistant, focusing on circadian rhythms and sleep disorders.
Stephanie Nelson
(Ph.D. 1992) is Professor in the Department of Classical Studies and the Core Curriculum at Boston University. She teaches widely in Greek and Latin literature and the Classical tradition and has published on Hesiod and Virgil, Ancient Greek comedy and tragedy, and the modernist reception of Classics, including Time and Identity in Ulysses and the Odyssey (2022).
Jo Alyson Parker
is Professor Emerita of English, Saint Joseph’s University. Her publications include Narrative Form and Chaos Theory in Sterne, Proust, Woolf, and Faulkner as well as essays dealing with narrative and time. She has co-edited three volumes in The Study of Time series.
Chloe Garcia Roberts
is the deputy editor of the Harvard Review and a lecturer of poetry at MIT. She is also a translator from the Spanish and Chinese. Her latest book is Fire Eater: A Translator’s Theology (2024).
Lanei Rodemeyer
works in the areas of phenomenology, continental philosophy, the philosophy of time, and feminist/gender philosophy of the body. She has published two books: Intersubjective Temporality (2006) and Lou Sullivan Diaries (1970–1980) and Theories of Sexual Embodiment (2018).
Walter Schweidler
has held chairs of philosophy at the universities of Dortmund, Bochum and Eichstätt. He has published on Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and time. Recent publications include Wiedergeburt and The Other Time. Philosophical Approaches to the Past that has Never been Present.
Sanyogita Singh
has a Ph.D. degree from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Her work discusses the dynamic materiality of time and the active temporality of matter within fiction.
Raji Steineck
Dr. phil. (Bonn University), is professor of Japanology at University of Zurich and previous president of ISST (2013–2023). He publishes on cultural philosophy and on Japanese intellectual history. His latest book is Zen Time: Dōgen’s Uji in Context (2025).
Daniela Tan
teaches Japanese literature and religions at the University of Zurich. She has published extensively on contemporary Japanese literature, including an annotated translation of Kajiwara Shōzen’s menstruation treatise for Medieval Female Health in East Asia in Asian Medicine (2025).
Fredric Turner
is a poet, a cultural critic, a playwright, a philosopher of science, an interdisciplinary scholar, an aesthetician, an essayist, and a translator. He is an author of numerous publications that span fields from poetry and literature to neuroscience and time.
Xiaoshi Wei
Ph.D. (Indiana University), is a research associate at SOAS, University of London, specializing in historical sound collections of China and the Turkic world. He directs the China Database for Traditional Music in Beijing.