Katharina Fackler Editor

Katharina Fackler is Assistant Professor of North American Studies at the University of Bonn. She is the author of Picturing the Poor: Photography and the Politics of Poverty in the 1960s (forthcoming 2025) and co-leads research groups on “The Cultural Politics of Reconciliation” and “Water as Method.”

Silvia Schultermandl is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Münster. She is the author of Unlinear Matrilineage: Mother-Daughter Conflicts in Asian American Literature (2009) and Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature (2021) and co-editor of five collections of essays which explore various themes in transnational studies, American literature and culture, as well as family and kinship studies.