Verena Bernardi Editor

Verena Bernardi is a senior lecturer and academic administrator in the English Department at Saarland University, Germany. Her research interests include vampire studies, cultural studies (North America and Scotland), television studies and fandom studies. She is the author of Us versus Them, or We? Post-2000 Vampiric Reflections of Family, Home and Hospitality in True Blood and The Originals. Among others, she has published in Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture (2017) and is a coeditor of All Around Monstrous (2019).

Amanda D. Giammanco is co-founder of and coordinator for Saarland University’s English Writing Center. She is also a PhD student working on American national identity formation and television in the mid- to late-twentieth century. Her research interests include post-war suburbanization, critical whiteness studies, critical race studies, American cultural history, media studies, as well as rhetoric and narratology.

Heike Mißler is a senior lecturer in British Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University. Her research interests include gender and queer theory, feminist theory, critical race studies, critical whiteness studies, popular romance studies, TV and film studies, and posthumanism. She is the author of The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit:Popular Fiction, Postfeminism and Representation (2017).