ALBRECHT CLASSEN is Univ. Distinguished Professor at the University of Arizona. He has a broad range of research interests covering the history of German and European literature from about 800 to 1600. He has currently published 138 books and well over 865 articles dealing with comparative issues, gender topics, environmental concerns, and cultural historical themes. Most recently appeared Criticism of the Court the Evil King in Medieval Literature (2024). In 2017, he received the rank of Grand Knight Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Three Lions. He is also a productive poet and author of short prose narratives.

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2006 Promotion an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, seit 2007 Germanistikdozentin an der Universität von La Réunion, 2018 Habilitation an der Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Levan Tsagareli (1980), PhD, Professor für die deutschsprachige und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der School of Arts and Sciences der Ilia State University (Tbilissi, Georgien). Studium der Deutschen Philologie, Literaturwissenschaft und Skandinavistik hauptsächlich an der Ivane Javakhishvili State University of Tbilisi (TSU, 1998-2004) und an den Universitäten Hamburg (2001, 2006), Wien (2002, 2009) und Stockholm (2005). PhD-Arbeit zum Thema: Arno Schmidts Spätwerk als Metafiktion (2008). 2010-2011 Dekan der School of Arts and Sciences an der ISU. Seit 2017 Zusammenarbeit mit National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement. Mitglied bei verschiedenen Literaturgremien (The Best Novel of the Year 2011, 2012-2013, 2014-2015, The Best Literary Translation of the Year, Litera 2018). Kürzere Forschungsaufenthalte an den Universitäten Saarbrücken (2008), Düsseldorf (2010, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2019), Wien (2009, 2015, 2021), Freiburg (2016) und an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (2014, 2017, 2019, 2022). Gastdozenturen an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universität Uppsala und Freien Universität Berlin. Autorschaft des Handbuchs Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaften (2016). Abgeschlossenes Forschungsprojekt (gefördert von der Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation): Kulturelle Spuren von Georgiern in Deutschland (2016-2018). Seit 2022 Georg-Forster-Stipendiat der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Deutschsprachige Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts, Poetik des postmodernistischen Romans, Erzähltheorie, Metafiktionalität, Intermedialität, Erinnerungskulturwissenschaft, Interkulturelle und Vergleichende Literaturforschung (Imagologie).

Eric Grube is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at Boston College, where he received his PhD in 2022. His research focuses on central Europe during the World Wars, in particular borderlands, rival fascisms, paramilitary violence, and the intersections of regionalism and German nationalism. He has conducted archival research throughout Germany and Austria, and he also received funding from the DAAD to teach for a year in Bavaria at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. In 2023, he received a Travel and Research Grant from the Central European History Society to conduct additional archival visits to Munich, Linz, and Vienna. He hopes to use this archival research to convert his dissertation into a book manuscript for publication with an academic press.

İstanbul doğumlu olan Funda Kızıler, ilk, orta ve lise öğrenimlerini İstanbul’da tamamladı. Atatürk Üniversitesi Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü’ndeki lisans öğrenimini 1996’da bölüm birincisi olarak bitiren Kızıler, 1997 yılında aynı üniversitede Araştırma Gör. olarak çalışmaya başladı. “Hermann Hesse’nin Boncuk Oyunu Adlı Yapıtında Ütopik Us Dünyası” (1998) başlıklı çalışmasıyla yüksek lisans, “Patrick Süskind’in Parfüm Adlı Romanında Modernist ve Postmodernist Açılımlar” (2003) başlıklı çalışmasıyla doktora öğrenimini tamamladı. Sakarya Üniversitesi Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü’nde Profesör Dr. olarak görev yapmaktadır.