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Frauke Berndt is Professor of German Literature at the University of Zurich. Her books include Anamnesis: Studien zur Topik der Erinnerung in der erzählenden Literatur zwischen 1800 und 1900 (Moritz—Keller—Raabe (1999), Poema/Gedicht: Die epistemische Konfiguration der Literatur um 1750 (2011) and Intertextualität: Eine Einführung (2013). She has edited several volumes on theoretical problems such as ambiguity and the symbol, and is currently co-editing a handbook on literature and psychoanalysis.

Jacob Bittner is a Ph.D. candidate in literary theory at King’s College London. He did his BA at University of Copenhagen and his MA at King’s College London. In the winter of 2014/15, he was on a research stay at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin. His dissertation concerns the emergence of literature as absolute. It is an extension and reworking of Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s investigation of the concept of the literary absolute, Martin Heidegger’s destruction of the metaphysics of will, Maurice Blanchot’s examination of the space of literature and Michel Foucault’s archaeology of literature.

Anne Fleig is Professor of Modern German Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her books include: Körperkultur und Moderne. Robert Musils Ästhetik des Sports (de Gruyter, 2008); Handlungs-Spiel-Räume. Dramen von Autorinnen im Theater des ausgehenden 18. Jahrhunderts (Königshausen & Neumann, 1999); Die Zukunft von Gender: Begriff und Zeitdiagnose. Ed. (Campus, 2014); Schreiben nach Kleist. Literarische, mediale und theoretische Transkriptionen. Co-ed. with Christian Moser and Helmut J. Schneider (Rombach, 2014). She is currently working on multilingualism and belonging in contemporary German Literature.

Patrick Greaney is Professor of German and Humanities at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of Untimely Beggar: Poverty and Power from Baudelaire to Benjamin (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) and Quotational Practices: Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art [End Page 833] (University of Minnesota Press, 2014). Recent publications include the edited volume Conceptualism and Other Fictions: The Collected Writings of Eduardo Costa, 1965–2015 (Les Figues Press, 2016) and articles on Foucault, Hofmannsthal, and Luis Camnitzer.

Anselm Haverkamp is Emeritus Professor of English at New York University and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. His recent books include Shakespearean Genealogies of Power (2011), Die Zweideutigkeit der Kunst (2012), Baumgarten-Studien: Zur Genealogie des Ästhetischen, with Rüdiger Campe and Christoph Menke (2014), Marginales zur Metapher: Poetik nach Aristoteles (2015), Productive Digression: Theorizing Practice (2016), Philosophie de la métaphore, with Jean-Claude Monod (2017), and a commentary on Hans Blumenberg’s Paradigms of a Metaphorology (2013).

Martha B. Helfer is Professor of German at Rutgers University. She is the author of The Retreat of Representation: The Concept of “Darstellung” in German Critical Discourse (SUNY Press, 1996); and The Word Unheard: Legacies of Anti-Semitism in German Literature and Culture (Northwestern University Press, 2011), which appeared in German translation as Das unerhörte Wort: Antisemitismus in Literatur und Kultur (Wallstein, 2013). Edited volumes include Rereading Romanticism (2000); Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies (co-edited with William Collins Donahue, 2011, 2014), and Commitment and Compassion: Essays on Georg Büchner (co-edited with Patrick Fortmann, 2012). Her current research analyzes the emergence of poetic Realism from its early German Romantic roots.

Natalie Lozinski-Veach is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Her research explores the points of contact between literature and critical theory as well as those between humans and other animals. In her dissertation, she traces constellations of non-anthropocentric aesthetic expression in the writings of Theodor W. Adorno, Paul Celan, W.G. Sebald, and Tadeusz Różewicz, along with their implications for thinking about trauma, ethics, and language after the Shoah.

Georg Mein is Professor of German Literature at the University of Luxembourg and Dean of the Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education. His main research interests are aesthetic theory, theory of literature and culture, literature from the 18th to the 21st century. His publications include Erzählungen der Gegenwart. [End Page 834] Von Judith Hermann bis Bernhard Schlink (2005); Hannah Arendt und Giorgio Agamben. Perspektiven, Parallelen, Kontroversen (co...

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