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Ingo Cornils Editor & Author

The Editors: Ingo Cornils is Senior Lecturer in German and Head of the Department of German, Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. Among his publications are the volumes Hermann Hesse Today / Hermann Hesse Heute (with Osman Durrani, 2005), (Un-)erfüllte Wirklichkeit: Neue Studien zu Uwe Timms Werk (with Frank Finlay, 2006), Baader-Meinhof Returns: History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism (with Gerrit-Jan Berendse, 2008) and A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse (2009).
Sarah Waters is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Leeds and author of Social Movements in France. Towards a New Citizenship (2003). She has published widely on the theory and practice of French social movements and recent articles include ‘Situating Movements Historically. May 1968, Alain Touraine and New Social Movement Theory’, Mobilization (March 2008), and ‘Globalization, the Confédération paysanne and symbolic power’, French Politics, Culture and Society (forthcoming 2010). She is currently completing a monograph on globalisation, opposition and French identity.