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Babs Boter Editor

Babs Boter is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research and teaching focus on life writing, travel writing and Diaspora Studies. She is initiator and convenor of the international expert group Unhinging the National Framework: Platform for the Study of Life Writing and Transnationalism. Marleen Rensen is a Senior Lecturer in Modern European Literature at the European Studies Department of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She specializes in life writing and modern literature and has a particular interest in the lives of French and German artists in the twentieth and twenty-first century. Giles Scott-Smith holds the Roosevelt Chair in New Diplomatic History at Leiden University, The Netherlands. In 2017, as one of the organisers of the New Diplomatic History network (www.newdiplomatichistory.com), he became one of the founding editors of Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society published with Brill.