Author: Linda M. Heß

Ina Batzke is a lecturer and research assistant at Münster University and visiting scholar at UC Santa Barbara, California (2016-2018). Her research interests include Migration and Refugee Literature, Life Writing, Law and Literature, and Ethnic Studies. Eric C. Erbacher is an American Studies scholar based in Münster, Germany. His research interests include Urban Studies, Media Studies, and Cultural Studies, with a focus on the intersection of these fields with issues of Visual Culture, especially photography, Popular Culture, and Class. Linda M. Heß is a lecturer (wiss. Mitarbeiterin) and post-doctoral candidate at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Frankfurt/Main. Her main research and teaching interests are located in the fields of Queer Studies, Aging Studies, Science Fiction, Modernism, and Gender Studies. She is a member of the Governing Council of the North American Network of Aging Studies (NANAS). Corinna Lenhardt, born 1982, received her Ph D in American studies from Universität Münster, Germany. Her research and teaching interests include African American and ethnic studies, race, gender, and popular culture. Her book »Savage Horrors« was awarded the Dissertationspreis 2020/2021 der Gesellschaft fur Fantastikforschung e.V.