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 |
 | Juan Camilo Brigard Juan Camilo Brigard is PhD candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. In his doctoral project he explores different forms of representing (non)violence in the autobiographies of speakers from different political collectives. Editorial Team Membership: Since January 2022 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 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 ORCID-ID: 0000-0001-8282-0341 |
 | Julia Latzel Julia Latzel is a PhD candidate in art history at the international Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. In her research project she explores visibilities and disappearances in the dispositif of surveillance through the lens of artistic reflections. Editorial Team Membership: Since June 2023 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | Robin Schmieder Robin Schmieder is a doctoral researcher and videographer at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture and the International PhD Programme for Literary and Cultural Studies at Justus Liebig University Giessen. In his research project located at the interface of media studies, life writing, and narrative theory, he aims to develop a media-specific narratological model for the analysis of vlogs. Editorial Team Membership: Since January 2022 |
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]
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]
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]