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jeffrey s. librett (jlibrett@uoregon.edu) is a professor of German at the University of Oregon. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Cultural Dialogue: Jews and Germans from Moses Mendelssohn to Richard Wagner and Beyond (Stanford University Press, 2000) and Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew (Fordham University Press, 2015).

ellwood wiggins (wiggins1@uw.edu) is an assistant professor of Germanics at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has published articles on Lessing, Goethe, Kleist, Mendelssohn, Shaftesbury, Adam Smith, Tom Stoppard, Heiner Müller, Aristotle, and Kalidasa. He is currently completing a book on the performance of recognition from Homer to Büchner.

max kramer (max.kramer@baruch.cuny.edu) teaches at Baruch College, City University of New York. He researches and publishes in the fields of queer theory, comparative nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and history, modern poetry, metaphor, translation, francophone Maghrebi literature, and the anthropology of sexuality in postcolonial North Africa.

william h. carter (wcarter@iastate.edu) is an assistant professor of German studies at Iowa State University. His research begins in the eighteenth century and extends to the present with a focus on the intersections of economic thought, literature, and philosophy. He has published on Kant, Goethe, Herder, Leo Perutz, and Hugo Bettauer.

william a. kinderman (wkinder@illinois.edu) is a professor of Music and Germanic languages and literatures at the University of Illinois. Author of many books, he received a Humboldt Research Prize (2010) and taught as a guest professor in Munich and Vienna, where he was recently a director's fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK).

javier samper vendrell (samperja@grinnell.edu) is an assistant professor of German studies at Grinnell College. He is currently completing a book about the entangled histories of homosexuality, youth, and mass culture in the Weimar Republic.

bettina brandt (ubb2@psu.edu) is a faculty member in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Penn State University. She is coeditor of Herta Müller: Politics and Aesthetics (University of Nebraska Press, 2013), China in the German Enlightenment (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and a recent special issue of Seminar (53, no. 3, 2017) on the politics of archives. [End Page 455]

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