Contributors



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Contributors

Chiara Maria Buglioni is a joint PhD student at the University of Milan (in German 
Studies) and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (in Theatre Studies). 
Her main research interests include: Weimar literature and culture, German theatre 
history, and theatre studies. She is currently working on her dissertation, which exam-
ines the role of Artur Kutscher in the development of early Theaterwissenschaft.

Christiane Bürger studied History, Art History, and Philosophy at the University 
of Vienna and Heidelberg, where she completed her M.A. thesis on Afro-German 
Children in the 1950s. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis, entitled “Kolo-
nialgeschichte(n). Das koloniale Namibia in der Geschichtsschreibung der BRD und 
DDR” at the University of Heidelberg. She is a scholarship holder of the ‘Studien-
stiftung des deutschen Volkes’ (German National Merit Foundation). Her research 
interests include: colonialism; postcolonial theories, and critical whiteness studies.

Jenny Engler studied Cultural Anthropology, Political Science, and European Ethnol-
ogy in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. Her major fields of study involve processes and 
effects of Europeanization, transnationalization, and migration, especially in urban 
settings, as well as Political Anthropology. Her Masters thesis deals with (postcolonial) 
memory conflicts in the migrant society.

Giulia Ferro Milone studied German and English literature in Venice and psychology 
in Padua and Urbino. She received a postgraduate scholarship from the University of 
Passau (Germany). She has translated narratives by Bernhard, Tieck, Hocke, Liebman, 
and Fühmann. She is a permanent teacher of German language and culture at Italian 
high schools. Since 2010, she is also a doctoral student both at the University of Ve-
rona (Italy) and at the German University of Bamberg, researching the works by E. T. 
A. Hoffmann from a Gender Studies approach. Her main research interests include: 
German and European literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; contem-
porary German literature; gender and sexuality studies; narratology; Erinnerungs- und 
Gedächtnisforschung.

Nina Peter is a PhD Candidate at the graduate school “Languages of Emotion,” at 
the Freie Universität Berlin. She is working on her dissertation project on the topic of 
economic speculation in literary texts (working title: “Affektive Kalkulationen. Liter-
arische Darstellungen ökonomischer Spekulation”). Since 2009, she is an associate in 
the research project “Emotionen in Wirtschaftskrisen” at the FU Berlin. Peter holds a 
Bachelors degree in Comparative Literature and Theatre Studies and a Masters degree 
in Comparative Literature (FU Berlin, École Normale Supérieure Paris). She has given 
presentations and holds publications on economics and literature, the theory of meta-
phor, and globalization and literature.



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Benjamin Schaper studied Lehramt an Gymnasien (German, English, and Philosophy) 
at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich in 2009. During his year abroad, 
Benjamin gained a Masters in Comparative Literature (German and English) from St. 
Hilda’s College, Oxford, which he finished with a thesis on Helmut Krausser and Ian 
McEwan. Schaper then went on for a PhD at Oriel College, Oxford. He is currently 
working on his dissertation, entitled “Lesbarkeit in der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur”.

Alexander Scholz studied German Literature, Linguistics, and Political Science in 
Bonn. His Master’s thesis dealt with the functions of books and reading in Elias Canet-
ti’s Die Blendung. After holding a fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison 
in 2011/12, he is now continuing his PhD studies at the Graduate School “Practices 
of Literature” in Münster. He is especially interested in narratology, materialities of 
communication, and early nineteenth-century literature.



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