Editorial Team
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Isabella Kalte
Isabella Kalte is publications coordinator and PhD candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. She is a member of the International PhD Programme Literary and Cultural Studies (IPP). In her doctoral project, she explores how gender and genre intersect in the representation of femininity and resistance in post-millennial Anglo-Caribbean literature. Editorial Team Membership: Since May 2021 ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2569-2133 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Our previous Editorial Team Members
(Membership Times are given in brackets.)
[Member contributed to the following issues.]
Annalina Benner (09/2022–02/2024) [Issues 14–16]
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]
Pinar Gümüş Mantu (09/2022–04/2024) [Issues 14–16]
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]