Birgit Breidenbach Editor & Author

Birgit Breidenbach is a Lecturer in Literature and Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. After earning a B.A. at the University of Giessen and an M.A. at the University of Warwick, she completed a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literary Studies at Warwick in 2017 with a thesis on the role of mood in the literature of European modernity. Her published and presented work focuses on literary and aesthetic theory, affect and the interplay between philosophy and literature.

Thomas Docherty is Professor of English and of Comparative Literature in the University of Warwick. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, Literature and Capital (Bloomsbury, 2018); The New Treason of the Intellectuals (Manchester University Press, 2018); Complicity (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016); Universities at War (Sage, 2015); Confessions (Bloomsbury, 2012). Political English will appear from Bloomsbury in 2019. He is currently completing a study of Censorship, and a novel, provisionally titled Of Silence and Slow Time. In 2016, he was awarded an honorary degree, Doctor of Letters, from the University of Kent.