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Astrid Surmatz Editor

Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer is Professor in the German Department at the University of Tübingen. In 2010 she held the position of guest professor in memory of Astrid Lindgren at Linnaeus-University of Kalmar/Växjö, Sweden. She was also one of the advisory editors for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature.

Astrid Surmatz is tenured Assistant Professor in Swedish and Scandinavian Literature at the University of Amsterdam. In 2008 she was guest professor in memory of Astrid Lindgen at Linnaeus-University of KalmarVäxjö/, Sweden, where she continues as a visiting professor. She wrote her dissertation on Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking in various translations and is works currently on Linnaeus.