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  • Contributors

Christoph Kepplinger-Prinz is an independent research scholar in German Studies who has worked since 2011 with the fwf project “Forschungsplatt form Peter Handke” in the Literature Archives of the Austrian National Library. He was a research fellow at the Elfriede Jelinek-Forschungszentrums from 2004 to 2011. Among his recent publications are Werkverzeichnis Elfriede Jelinek (2004), Literaturnobelpreis Elfriede Jelinek (2005), and Ritual. Macht. Blasphemie (2010), as well as the online projects JeliNetz (2007) and Jelinek/Schlingensief/Blog (2011).

Heide Kunzelmann is the director of the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature (imlr/sas) at the University of London and lecturer in German at the University of Kent. Her research interests include Austrian literature and cultural history of the twentieth century, with special focus on postwar avant-garde literature, H. C. Artmann and the Wiener Gruppe, Neo-/Surrealism, and theory of change in authorship. Recent publications include “Ich bin ja der Proteus!” H. C. Artmanns Poetik der Wandelbarkeit (Vienna 2013).

Joseph McVeigh is a professor of German Studies at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He has published extensively on Austrian and German literary culture since 1945 as well as American cultural relations with German-speaking Europe after World War II. His most recent publications include “‘Ohne dass der Hörer kapiert . . .’: Der Sender Rot-Weiß-Rot im Kalten Krieg” in Michael Hansel and Michael Rohrwasser’s collection Kalter Krieg in Österreich: Literatur–Kunst–Kultur (Vienna 2010), Ingeborg Bachmann: Die Radiofamilie (Berlin 2011) and the forthcoming book Ingeborg Bachmanns Wien, 1946–1953 (Berlin 2015). [End Page xiii]

Berthold Molden is a global historian whose main research interests include transnational politics of memory and the intellectual history of the Cold War and decolonization, particularly in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, as well as media history. Among his recent publications are Las políticas de la historia en Guatemala (Guatemala 2014), EUtROPEs: The Paradox of European Empire (ed. with John Boyer, Chicago 2014) and “Günther Anders as a Transnational Intellectual in the Late 1960s,” in Günter Bischof and Bernhard Fetz’s volume The Life and Work of Gűnther Anders: Émigré, Iconoclast, Philosopher, Literateur (Innsbruck 2014).

Elisabeth Prinz is an independent research scholar in the areas of German studies, European ethnology, philosophy, and history. She was an ifk Junior Fellow in 2009–10. Among her most recent publications are Im Körper des Souveräns: Politische Krankheitsmetaphern bei Arthur Koestler (Vienna 2011) as well as the articles “Arthur Koestler und der Kalte Krieg um 1950. Der politisch engagierte Intellektuelle als Figur der Übertragung,” and, with Michael Rohrwasser, “‘Der Erfolg öffnet Dir hier mehr Türen als es überhaupt gibt’: Arthur Koestler und Manès Sperber–Briefwechsel von 1939 bis 1947,” which appeared in Michael Hansel and Michael Rohrwasser’s volume Kalter Krieg in Österreich: Literatur–Kunst–Kultur (Vienna 2010).

Helga Schreckenberger is professor of German at the University of Vermont. Her research focuses on twentieth-and twenty-first-century Austrian literature and exile studies. She has published on Gerhard Roth, Felix Mitterer, Peter Henisch, Elisabeth Reichart, Lilian Faschinger, Marlene Streeruwitz, Ingeborg Bachmann, Vladimir Vertlib, Dimitré Dinev, Irmgard Keun, Erika Mann, and Erich Maria Remarque. Recent publications include: “‘They Say Hollywood is a Paradise!’ Salka Viertel’s Perseverance During Hollywood’s ‘Inquisition’” (2014) and “Berliner Spuren in Billy Wilder’s Film Hold Back the Dawn (1941)” (2015).

Günther Stocker is associate professor of German Studies at the University of Vienna. His research interests include, among other things, literature and media, reading research, German and Austrian postwar literature, and contemporary Austrian literature. Among his most recent publications is the volume Spannungsfelder: Zur deutschsprachigen Literatur im Kalten Krieg (1945–1968), which he coedited with Michael Rohrwasser (2014). [End Page xiv]

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