Rebecca Braun Editor, Author & Translator

Tobias Boes is Associate Professor of German at the University of Notre Dame, United States. Trained in Comparative Literature, he specializes in the modernist period, the theory and history of the novel, and in cultural interactions between Germany and the world at large. Major publications include Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman (Cornell University Press, 2012) and Thomas Mann's War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters (Cornell University Press, 2019). Rebecca Braun is Professor of Modern Languages and Creative Futures at Lancaster University, United Kingdom, where she also directs the multi-disciplinary Institute for Social Futures. Her research ranges across languages and cultures to explore how creative practice can shape our engagement with societies of the future. She has published widely on practices of authorship around the world, and with particular expertise in twentieth and twenty-first-century German-language writing. Major publications include a 2016 special issue of Celebrity Studies on literary celebrity (co-edited with Emily Spiers) and the forthcoming Authors and the World: Placing Literature in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Germany. Emily Spiers is Lecturer in Creative Futures at Lancaster University, United Kingdom. Her work focuses on future-oriented, innovative trends in communicative and literary practices. She explores how futures are being envisaged, anticipated and made through art and literature — and how creative narratives can help articulate multiple futures in fields as diverse as defence, education and climate change. Major publications include a 2016 special issue of Celebrity Studies on literary celebrity (co-edited with Rebecca Braun), and Pop-Feminist Narratives: The Female Subject under Neoliberalism in North America, Britain, and Germany (Oxford University Press, 2018)