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  • Contributors

peter c. meilaender (peter.meilaender@houghton.edu) is professor of political science at Houghton College. A specialist in politics and literature, he is completing a manuscript on the political thought of Jeremias Gotthelf. He has also published on Shakespeare, Trollope, Charles Sealsfield, and Lukas Bärfuss. Meilaender codirects the GSA's Swiss Studies Network.

andrew hemingway (a.hemingway@ucl.ac.uk) is professor emeritus in history of art at University College London. He has written extensively on British romantic landscape painting and US art of the early twentieth century. Among his recent books is The Mysticism of Money: Precisionist Painting and Machine Age America (Periscope Publishing, 2013).

stefan höppner (stefan.hoeppner@klassik-stiftung.de) is head of the research project "Writers' Libraries" at Klassik Stiftung Weimar; in addition, he is Privatdozent of German studies at the University of Freiburg. His research interests include the Age of Goethe, contemporary literature and pop culture, as well as utopias and science fiction.

patricia melzer (pmelzer@temple.edu) is associate professor of German and women's studies at Temple University in Philadelphia. She is the author of Death in the Shape of a Young Girl: Women's Political Violence in the Red Army Faction (New York University Press, 2015) and Alien Constructions: Science Fiction and Feminist Thought (University of Texas Press, 2006).

john eicher (eicher@ghi-dc.org) is the postdoctoral fellow in the history of migration at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC. His research concerns the transnational networks connecting ethnic Germans to both each other and to Germany in the early twentieth century.

nick block (blockni@bc.edu) is a visiting assistant professor of German studies at Boston College. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan. He has published on the transnational cultural transfers between German and Yiddish modernism. His broader research interests engage with German-Jewish intellectual history and contemporary German literature. [End Page 485]

ariana orozco (aorozco@umich.edu) is a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Kalamazoo College. Her research and teaching focuses on contemporary German literature, memory and museum studies, gender, popular culture, and transnational German studies. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2016.

irene kacandes (irene.kacandes@dartmouth.edu) holds an endowed chair in German studies and comparative literature at Dartmouth College. Author or editor of numerous volumes on a wide range of subjects, she edits the series Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies at De Gruyter Verlag and has participated enthusiastically in the GSA, including recently serving as president. [End Page 486]

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