Notes on Contributors
Anja-Maria Bassimir
is assistant professor in American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Bassimir studied history and religious studies in the United States and Germany. She is coeditor of Religious Periodicals and Publishing in Transnational Contexts: The Press and the Pulpit; her book Evangelical News: Politics, Gender, and Bioethics in Conservative Christian Magazines of the 1970s and 1980s is forthcoming with Alabama University Press.
Andreas Beck
is member of the DFG research unit 2288 Journalliteratur. His research concentrates, inter alia, on image-text relations in the early modern period (emblematics) and in German and French nineteenth-century illustrated periodicals and books. He published papers dealing with migrating images in books, magazines, architecture, and on jetons in the early modern period and in the nineteenth century. For a list of publications see
Jutta Ernst
is Professor and Chair of American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, where she cofounded the interdisciplinary research group Transnational Periodical Cultures. A specialist in modernism, translation, and magazine studies, her most recent publications include Amerikanische Modernismen: Schreibweisen, Konzepte und zeitgenössische Periodika als Vermittlungsinstanzen (2018) and the coedited volume Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim (2020).
Sabina Fazli
is a postdoc in the DFG-funded collaborative research center SFB 1482 Humandifferenzierung at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, researching human categorization in contemporary lifestyle magazines and the style press in an American studies-based subproject. She completed her PhD on Victorian sensation fiction and material culture in the Department of English Literature at Goettingen University and is currently coediting a German-language introduction to periodical/magazine studies.
Gustav Frank
is Professor of German Literature and Media Studies at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, with research foci on visual culture, periodical studies, narratology, and synthetic modernism (1920s–1950s). His recent publications include Farewell to Visual Studies (2016, with J. Elkins, S. Manghani); W. J. T. Mitchell: Bildtheorie (ed. and afterword, 2018); “Kultur – Zeit – Schrift: Literatur- und Kulturzeitschriften als ‘kleine Archive’” (2009, with M. Podewski, S. Scherer); “Prolegomena zu einer integralen Zeitschriftenforschung” (2016); “Zeitung/Zeitschrift,” Handbuch Feuilleton, eds. E. Schütz et al. (forthcoming).
Florian Freitag
received his PhD from the University of Konstanz in 2011 and has been a professor of American Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen since 2019. Freitag is the author of The Farm Novel in North America (Camden House 2013) and Popular New Orleans (Routledge 2021); his other work has appeared in Canadian Literature, American Literary Naturalism, and The Journal of Popular Culture.
Vincent Fröhlich
heads the DFG project “Seeing Film between the Lines: Remediation and Aesthetics of the Film Periodical,” which forms part of the research unit Journal-literatur. The project is situated at the Institute for Media Studies at the University of Marburg. Previously, he was a research associate in “Fragment Constellations” lead by Jens Ruchatz, which analyzed photography in magazines of the nineteenth century.
Ellen Gruber Garvey’s
two award-winning books are Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance, and The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture. Her articles on print culture include work on abolitionists’ use of newspapers as data, Alice Dunbar Nelson’s suffrage scrapbooks, and zines. She is Professor Emerita at New Jersey City University.
Dagmar von Hoff
is Full Professor of German Literature and Chair of German Media Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Her main research areas are German literature (eighteenth to twenty-first century), periodical studies, intermediality and transmediality, violence in literature and film as well as postmemory and trauma. She is founder of the book series Signaturen der Gewalt/Signatures of Violence and LiteraturFilm.
Abby Hohenstatt
is a consultant for funding and finance at ateneKOM GmbH in Lower Saxony, where she advises rural municipalities on local, federal, and EU funding opportunities for development projects. She completed her Bachelor and Master’s degrees at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. As a member of the research group Transnational Periodical Cultures her focus was on aesthetics in independent magazines and performativity.
Nicola Kaminski
is Professor of Modern German Philology at Ruhr University Bochum. Since 2016 she has been spokeswoman of the DFG Research Unit Journal Literature: Rules of Format, Visual Design, and Cultures of Reception. Recent publications include Optische Auftritte: Marktszenen in der medialen Konkurrenz von Journal-, Almanachs- und Bücherliteratur (with Stephanie Gleißner, Mirela Husić, Volker Mergenthaler) (2019) and Zeit/Schrift 1813–1815 oder Chronopoetik des ›Unregelmäßigen‹ (with David Brehm, Volker Mergenthaler, Nora Ramtke, Sven Schöpf) (2022).
Maximilian Kutzner
studied History and Journalism and Public History at Justus Liebig University Giessen (2009–2015) and received his PhD at Julius Maximilians University Würzburg (2016–2019) with a dissertation on the economic sphere of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Since 2019, he has been a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of History at Julius Maximilians University Würzburg.
Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
is Senior Professor of Romance Cultural Studies and Intercultural Communication at Saarland University and founding member of the International Research Training Group Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces. His main research fields concern cultural transfers between France and Germany as well as between Europe and non-European societies, conceptual history, francophone literatures and medias, and the translations of eighteenth-century encyclopedias.
Anaïs Nagel
is a French PhD Student at the University of Strasbourg and Saarland University. Her thesis entitled “The Upper Rhine Press (1780s–1810s): Cross-Border Perspectives and Cultural Transfers” focuses on how newspapers published at the turn of the nineteenth century were a vector of politization on both sides of the Rhine.
Mark J. Noonan
is author of Reading “The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine”: American Literature and Culture, 1870–1893 (2010) and coeditor of The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing about New York City (2015), in addition to numerous articles on periodicals and urban history. He is past President of the Research Society for American Periodicals (2017–2019) and Founding Editor of the Columbia Journal of American Studies.
Iulia-Karin Patrut
is Full Professor of German Literatures at the European University Flensburg. From 2005 to 2012 she was a research assistant in the DFG-funded collaborative research center 600 Strangers and Poor People at the University of Trier. Her monographs include Phantasma Nation: ‚Zigeuner‘ und Juden als Grenzfiguren des ‚Deutschen‘ (1770–1920) (Königshausen & Neumann, 2014) and „Schwarze Schwester“ – „Teufelsjunge“: Ethnizität und Geschlecht bei Paul Celan und Herta Müller (Böhlau Verlag, 2006).
Madleen Podewski
studied German and Italian Studies. Currently, she is a lecturer at the Institute for German and Dutch Philology at the Free University Berlin. She is the author of Komplexe Medienordnungen: Zur Rolle der Literatur in der deutsch-jüdischen Zeitschrift “Ost und West” (1901–1923) (Bielefeld, 2014) and Akkumulieren, Ab- wechseln, Durchmischen: Wie die “Gartenlaube” eine anschauliche Welt druckt und welche Rolle ‘Literatur’ dabei spielt (Berlin, 2020; see
Hans-Martin Rall
is Associate Chair (Research) and Professor of Animation Studies at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He is also a successful director of independent animated short films. His books Animation: From Concept to Production (2017) and Adaptation for Animation: Transforming Literature Frame by Frame (2019) were published by CRC Press.
Oliver Scheiding
is Professor of North American Literature and Culture in the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His research focuses on magazine studies, print culture, and material culture studies. He is currently working on a monograph titled Print Technologies and the Emergence of American Literature (forthcoming with Wiley–Blackwell). His periodical research projects are funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG; see the database GEPRIS). For his publications see:
Clemens Spahr
is lecturer of American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. He is the author of A Poetics of Global Solidarity: Modern American Poetry and Social Movements (2015) and Radical Beauty: American Transcendentalism and the Aesthetic Critique of Modernity (2011). His current book project, tentatively titled American Romanticism and the Limits of Education, investigates the relationship between literary Romanticism and the educational institutions of antebellum America.
Wibke Weber
is Professor of Media Linguistics at Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Her areas of research are visual semiotics, digital storytelling, multimodal discourse analysis, comics journalism, data visualizations and infographics, and augmented and virtual reality. From 2001 to 2013 she worked as a Professor of Information Design at Stuttgart Media University. For her publications and current research projects see:
Anne-Julia Zwierlein
is Professor and Chair of English Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Regensburg. Her main areas of expertise are early modern and Victorian studies. She is PI of the Research Training Group Pre-Modern Metropolitanism and is currently working on the publications from a German Research Foundation (DFG) funded project on Victorian oral performances and mass print.