Jana Aresin Editor

Silvia Schultermandl (she/her), born in 1977, is a professor and chair of American studies at Universität Münster. She researches various themes in transnational studies, American literature and culture, as well as family and kinship studies. Jana Aresin (she/her), born in 1992, is a doctoral researcher in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. She researches the cultural and media history of the early Cold War (1945-1960) in comparative perspective, with a regional focus on the United States and Japan. In 2020-21 she was Elisabeth-List Junior Fellow at the Coordination Centre for Gender Studies and Equal Opportunity at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. Si Sophie Pages Whybrew (she/her, they/them), born in 1987, is a senior scientist for gender and diversity studies at Kunst-Universität Graz. They completed their dissertation on »Affective Trans Worldmaking in Contemporary Science Fiction« at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. From 2020-21, they were an Elisabeth-List Junior Fellow at the Coordination Centre for Gender Studies in the research project »Literary Negotiations of Affective and Gendered Belongings.« Dijana Simic (she/her), born in 1988, is a lecturer of Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian literary and cultural studies in the Department of Slavic Studies at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. Currently, she is completing her PhD project on gender, sexuality, and intimate counterpublics in recent Bosnian-Herzegovinian prose. Her teaching and research focus on migration, gender, and memory studies in the former Yugoslav context.