Christian A. Bachmann is a postdoctoral researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) in the DFG-funded research unit “Journal Literature” focusing on “Framing Experiments: Cartoon Strips around 1900 in German Humorous-Satirical Publications and as US Newspaper Comic Strips.” In previous research, he has dealt with the materiality and mediality of comics and graphic novels, artist’s books, as well as German and American Literature from the 19th to the 21st century. His most recent book is “Macht der Musik. Musik in Karikatur, Bildergeschichte und Comic. 1830–1930” (2017).
Vance Byrd is an associate professor in the Department of German at Grinnell College. He is the author of A Pedagogy of Observation: Nineteenth-Century Panoramas, German Literature, and Reading Culture (Bucknell University Press, 2017). In addition to research on nineteenth-century visual culture, cultures of commemoration, and the environmental humanities, Byrd researches and teaches history of the book and periodicals. He recently co-edited a journal issue on interpreting German literary texts in their original nineteenth-century periodical publication context and is preparing an edited volume on nineteenth-century literature and editorial culture.
Alice Goff is an assistant professor of German history at the University of Chicago. After receiving her PhD from UC Berkeley, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan from 2015-2017. Her current book project examines the French looting of German art in the Napoleonic period and the ensuing Prussian cultural politics of the early 1800s. Recent publications include “The Object as Ambassador: The Splendor of Dresden in the United States, 1978/79” Representations (2018) and “The Honor of the Trophy: A Prussian Bronze in the Napoleonic Era,” in Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement (2018).
Cordula Grewe is an associate professor of art history at Indiana University Bloomington, specializing in 19th-century German art, with particular emphasis on questions of visual piety, word-image relationships, and aesthetics. Her publications include Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism (Ashgate, 2009), The Nazarenes. Romantic Avant-garde and the Art of the Concept (Penn State, 2015), Wilhelm Schadow (1788-1862). Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde (Michael Imhof, 2017), and, forthcoming, The Arabesque from Kant to Comics (Routledge). Her current work focuses respectively on modern theo-aesthetics (Ingres/Michael Triegel) and the intersection of portraiture, performance, and the living picture. Grewe has held numerous grants from, among other institutions, the Institute for Advanced Study and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Agnes Hoffmann is a postdoctoral assistant in the German Department at the University of Basel, having started in 2016. She received her M.A. in Comparative Literature and Art History in Berlin in 2011 and was a fellow at the Eikones Center for Image Criticism from 2014 to 2016. She completed her PhD in Basel in 2016 with a study on landscape aesthetics in literature, visual arts, and anthropology around 1900 (Landschaft im Nachbild, forthcoming 2018). She is currently working on a project on theatricality and politics in German drama from the 17th to the early 19th century.
Anett Holzheid received MAs from the University of Würzburg and SUNY Albany while studying German, English, and American Studies. She received her PhD from the University of Würzburg with a dissertation examining the media culture of postcards. From 2004-2013, she was a research fellow (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) in German Studies at the Universities of Erfurt and Mainz. From 2013-2015, she was a research fellow in visual culture at the University of Siegen. Since 2015, she has served as a research fellow and advisor (wissenschaftliche Referentin), and curator to the director of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe.
Catriona MacLeod is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller and Fugitive Objects: Literature and Sculpture in the German Nineteenth Century. She recently co-edited the volume Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures and is also the co-editor of two volumes in the area of interarts scholarship, Elective Affinities: Testing Word and Image Relationships and Efficacité/Efficacy: How to Do Things with Words and Images? Since 2011, she has been senior editor of the journal Word & Image.
Kathrin Maurer is an associate professor of German Studies at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense (DK). Her recent publications include “The Paradox of Immersion: Watching War in Nineteenth-Century Panoramas” in Visualizing War: Emotions, Technologies, Communities (Routledge, 2018, ed. by KM) and Visualizing the Past: The Power of the Image in Nineteenth-Century Historicism (Walter de Gruyter, 2013). Her research interests are in visual culture, discourses of war, and representations of history in German literature. She is also the leader of the research network “Drones and Aesthetics” sponsored by the Danish Research Council.
Antje Pfannkuchen teaches at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. She studies the relationships of media-technology, science, literature, and art, especially in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She has published on Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Johann Kaspar Lavater, and Johann Wilhelm Ritter and is working on a book manuscript tracing the connections between Romanticism and the invention of photography. Most recently she coedited “The Technological Introject: Friedrich Kittler between Implementation and the Incalculable.”
J. P. Short is an associate professor of modern European history at the University of Georgia. He is author of articles on the social, cultural, and visual history of German imperialism and of Magic Lantern Empire: Colonialism and Society in Germany. He is currently at work on the history of global consciousness in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe.
Vance Byrd is an associate professor in the Department of German at Grinnell College. He is the author of A Pedagogy of Observation: Nineteenth-Century Panoramas, German Literature, and Reading Culture (Bucknell University Press, 2017). In addition to research on nineteenth-century visual culture, cultures of commemoration, and the environmental humanities, Byrd researches and teaches history of the book and periodicals. He recently co-edited a journal issue on interpreting German literary texts in their original nineteenth-century periodical publication context and is preparing an edited volume on nineteenth-century literature and editorial culture.
Alice Goff is an assistant professor of German history at the University of Chicago. After receiving her PhD from UC Berkeley, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan from 2015-2017. Her current book project examines the French looting of German art in the Napoleonic period and the ensuing Prussian cultural politics of the early 1800s. Recent publications include “The Object as Ambassador: The Splendor of Dresden in the United States, 1978/79” Representations (2018) and “The Honor of the Trophy: A Prussian Bronze in the Napoleonic Era,” in Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement (2018).
Cordula Grewe is an associate professor of art history at Indiana University Bloomington, specializing in 19th-century German art, with particular emphasis on questions of visual piety, word-image relationships, and aesthetics. Her publications include Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism (Ashgate, 2009), The Nazarenes. Romantic Avant-garde and the Art of the Concept (Penn State, 2015), Wilhelm Schadow (1788-1862). Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde (Michael Imhof, 2017), and, forthcoming, The Arabesque from Kant to Comics (Routledge). Her current work focuses respectively on modern theo-aesthetics (Ingres/Michael Triegel) and the intersection of portraiture, performance, and the living picture. Grewe has held numerous grants from, among other institutions, the Institute for Advanced Study and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Agnes Hoffmann is a postdoctoral assistant in the German Department at the University of Basel, having started in 2016. She received her M.A. in Comparative Literature and Art History in Berlin in 2011 and was a fellow at the Eikones Center for Image Criticism from 2014 to 2016. She completed her PhD in Basel in 2016 with a study on landscape aesthetics in literature, visual arts, and anthropology around 1900 (Landschaft im Nachbild, forthcoming 2018). She is currently working on a project on theatricality and politics in German drama from the 17th to the early 19th century.
Anett Holzheid received MAs from the University of Würzburg and SUNY Albany while studying German, English, and American Studies. She received her PhD from the University of Würzburg with a dissertation examining the media culture of postcards. From 2004-2013, she was a research fellow (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) in German Studies at the Universities of Erfurt and Mainz. From 2013-2015, she was a research fellow in visual culture at the University of Siegen. Since 2015, she has served as a research fellow and advisor (wissenschaftliche Referentin), and curator to the director of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe.
Catriona MacLeod is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller and Fugitive Objects: Literature and Sculpture in the German Nineteenth Century. She recently co-edited the volume Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures and is also the co-editor of two volumes in the area of interarts scholarship, Elective Affinities: Testing Word and Image Relationships and Efficacité/Efficacy: How to Do Things with Words and Images? Since 2011, she has been senior editor of the journal Word & Image.
Kathrin Maurer is an associate professor of German Studies at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense (DK). Her recent publications include “The Paradox of Immersion: Watching War in Nineteenth-Century Panoramas” in Visualizing War: Emotions, Technologies, Communities (Routledge, 2018, ed. by KM) and Visualizing the Past: The Power of the Image in Nineteenth-Century Historicism (Walter de Gruyter, 2013). Her research interests are in visual culture, discourses of war, and representations of history in German literature. She is also the leader of the research network “Drones and Aesthetics” sponsored by the Danish Research Council.
Antje Pfannkuchen teaches at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. She studies the relationships of media-technology, science, literature, and art, especially in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She has published on Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Johann Kaspar Lavater, and Johann Wilhelm Ritter and is working on a book manuscript tracing the connections between Romanticism and the invention of photography. Most recently she coedited “The Technological Introject: Friedrich Kittler between Implementation and the Incalculable.”
J. P. Short is an associate professor of modern European history at the University of Georgia. He is author of articles on the social, cultural, and visual history of German imperialism and of Magic Lantern Empire: Colonialism and Society in Germany. He is currently at work on the history of global consciousness in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe.