Bernadette Cronin Editor & Author

Bernadette Cronin is an actor and theatre practitioner-researcher who co-founded Gaitkrash Theatre Company in 2007 to make experimental theatre work at the intersection between art forms. She teaches in the Department of Theatre at University College Cork, Ireland and her research focuses mainly on adapting and devising.

Rachel MagShamhráin is Lecturer in German Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. Her research looks at appropriation — adoptions, borrowings, thefts, re-purposing and retellings across media, languages and genders — and concentrates on the German author Heinrich von Kleist.

Nikolai Jan Preuschoff teaches German at NYU Berlin and Literary Studies at the University of Erfurt. Germany. He is the author of Mit Walter Benjamin: Melancholie, Geschichte und Erzählen bei W.G. Sebald (2016) and is currently working on a postdoctoral project on poetics and modesty.