Editorial Team

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Annalina Benner

Annalina Benner is a doctoral researcher at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture and a member of the International PhD Programme Literary and Cultural Studies. She is a member of Research Area 5 which is dedicated to Media and Multiliteracy Studies and a speaker of AG Writing. Her research project discusses the impact of digitization on the musicalization of anglophone fiction and the emergence of new forms of intermediality.

Editorial Team Membership: Since September 2022

Annalina.Benner@on-culture.org

Ievgen Bilyk 

Ievgen Bilyk is a PhD candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. In his doctoral project titled How Knowledge About Open Data Is Created: Analysis of Formal International Rankings and Community-Based Practices,” he seeks to demonstrate how knowledge about open data can be constructed more democratically by looking into formal international rankings of open data development and community-based practices of open data use in specific countries from a critical perspective of the social studies of knowledge.  

Editorial Team Membership: Since January 2024

ievgen.bilyk@on-culture.org 

Riccardo Buonamici

Riccardo Buonamici is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Study of Culture and a member of the International Doctoral Programme in Literary and Cultural Studies (IPP) and PhDnet. In his research project, he investigates how the formal representation of moral ambiguity evolves throughout the English picaresque tradition in the early modern period.

Editorial Team Membership: Since June 2023

Riccardo.Buonamici@on-culture.org

Erzhena Dugarova

Erzhena Dugarova is a PhD candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. In her PhD project, grounded in cultural anthropology and ethnographic methods, she deals with the emergence of Buryat ethnic activism and articulations and (re)constructions of indigenous identities.

Editorial Team Membership: Since January 2024

Erzhena.Dugarova@on-culture.org

Pinar Gümüş Mantu

Pinar Gümüş Mantu works as postdoctoral research assistant at the Chair of Cultural Sociology at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen, and she is also an affiliated postdoc researcher at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. Among her research interests are the fields of cultural analysis, sociology of youth & social movements, critical migration studies with a focus on gender, and qualitative social research.

Editorial Team Membership: Since September 2022

Pinar.Guemues@on-culture.org

Katharina Hacker

Katharina Hacker is a PhD candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. Her doctoral project is situated in the fields of Sociology, Cultural and Collective Memory Studies and Political Science. She analyzes the (trans-)collective memory structures of the Ovaherero and Nama genocide in the face of transnational recognition processes.  

Editorial Team Membership: Since January 2024

Katharina.Hacker@on-culture.org

Isabella Kalte

Isabella Kalte is publications coordinator and PhD candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. In her doctoral project, she explores how colonial legacies influence contemporary constructions and representations of female subjectivity through an examination of Caribbean feminist social media movements in comparison with the #MeToo movement.

Editorial Team Membership: Since May 2021

Isabella.Kalte@on-culture.org

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2569-2133

Jens Kugele

Jens Kugele is Head of Research Coordination and member of the Executive Board of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. Anchored in the disciplines of Literary Studies and History of Religion, Jens’s postdoctoral research focuses on the construction of sacred spaces in literary and cultural history.

Editorial Team Membership: Since October 2014

Jens.Kugele@on-culture.org

ORCID-ID: 0000-0001-8282-0341

Ansgar Nünning

Ansgar Nünning is the Academic Director of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) and Professor of English and American Literature and Cultural Studies in Giessen. He has published widely on English and American literature, cultures of memory, narratology, and literary and cultural theory.

Editorial Team Membership: Since 2013

Ansgar.Nünning@on-culture.org

Kacper Radny

Kacper Radny is a research assistant and a PhD candidate in art history at the international Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. He is active at the JLU’s Faculty of History and Cultural Studies and Institute for Art History, as well as GCSC’s Europe’s East and Game Studies working groups. His research focuses on the nineteenth century Eastern European painting and modern queer art.

Editorial Team Membership: Since February 2023

Kacper.Radny@on-culture.org

Dorothea Sawon

Dorothea Sawon is a PhD candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture and member of the International PhD Programme Literary and Cultural Studies (IPP) and the PhDnet. Her doctoral research project which is situated at the intersections of the environmental humanities, the study of culture and English studies investigates representations of the environment in contemporary English nonfiction writing. Among her research interests are literary and cultural theory, the environmental humanities, aesthetics, and questions of performativity. 

Editorial Team Membership: Since February 2023

Dorothea.Sawon@on-culture.org

Our previous Editorial Team Members

(Membership Times are given in brackets.)

[Member contributed to the following issues.]

Max Bergmann (2018–04/2021) [Issues 5–11]

Nora Berning (06/2014–02/2017) [Issues 1–3]

Marie-Christine Boucher (07/2019–10/2021) [Issues 8–12]

Juan Camilo Brigard (01/2022–12/2023) [Issues 13–16]

Katja Čičigoj (2013–2014)

Jeff Coons (11/2017–10/2019) [Issues 4–8]

Melanie Grumt Suárez (05/2016–10/2017) [Issues 1, 2]

Taya Hanauer (12/2018–09/2020) [Issues 6–10]

Richard D. Herzog (11/2017–04/2019) [Issues 4–7]

Isabel Kalous (07/2016–03/2018) [Issues 1–5]

Nourhan Kassem (05/2015–12/2017) [Issues 1–4]

Oliver Klaassen (08/2019–12/2021) [Issues 8–12]

Elizabeth Kovach (2013–10/2018) [Issues 1–6]

Beatrice Michaelis (2013–2014)

Margarita Pavlova (02/2021-12/2022) [Issues 11–14]

Imke Polland (10/2015–04/2017) [Issues 1–3]

Robin Schmieder (01/2022–12/2023) [Issues 13–16]

Nevena Stamenković (09/2016–03/2017) [Issues 1–3]

Cicek Tanli (07/2019–12/2021) [Issues 8–12]

Lucia Toman (03/2020–09/2022) [Issues 9–13]

Faith Oloruntoba (10/2018–07/2019) [Issues 6, 7]

Simon Ottersbach (05/2015–10/2019) [Issues 1–7]

Marcel Wrzesinski (2013–04/2018) [Issues 1–5]

Eva Zimmermann (02/2021-12/2022) [Issues 11–14]