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Liane Ströbel Author & Editor

Ludwig Deringer is Professor Emeritus of American and Canadian Studies at RWTH Aachen University. He obtained his doctorate from Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz and his Habilitation from the Catholic University of Eichstätt, and was an American Studies Research Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (New York) in 1985-86 at the University of Washington and the University of Oregon. His research interests include Early American Literatures and Cultures, Historical and Contemporary Rhetoric, Comparative Poetry Studies, American-Canadian literary and cultural interrelations, and American-German literary and cultural interrelations.

Liane Ströbel has researched and taught at the following universities: RWTH Aachen University, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. In her research and publications on Emmanuel Macron, Donald Trump, the Yellow Vest crisis, the Brexit referendum, and the current Corona crisis, she focuses on underlining the role of sensorimotor concepts in discourse analysis. The results of the synchronic analyses of embodiment and enaction are supported by diachronic studies in the field of language evolution, development, and change.