Auteur: Jennifer K. Dick

Jennifer K. Dick teaches American Literature and Civilization at the Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France. Her research is in the field of poetry and visual poetics. She is particularly interested in the liminal spaces between language use in the visual arts and typography and visual work implanted on the page in American and European literature. She co-organized the international conference Lex-ICON: treating image as text and text as image in June 2012 from which a collection of critical and creative work on the topic is forthcoming. Stephanie Schwerter teaches translation studies, intercultural mediation, and comparative literature at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is the author of « Northern Irish Poetry and the Russian Turn » (2013) and « Literarisierung einer gespaltenen Stadt. Belfast in der nordirischen Troubles Fiction » (2007). Her current research interest lies in the field of intercultural communication, exploring in particular intercultural connections in European literature.