Inspiration Bonaparte?

SEAN ALLAN is Professor of German at the University of St Andrews. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and at the Humboldt Universitaet in what was then East Berlin. From 2001-2016 he worked at the University of Warwick before moving to St Andrews in 2016 as Professor of German. His main research areas regard the culture of the European Enlightenment, interdisciplinary approaches to the mediation of music and the visual arts, as well as translation and translation studies. He is the author of The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist: Ideals and Illusions (1996) and The Stories of Heinrich von Kleist: Fictions of Security (Camden House, 2001). He is the co-editor of a special edition of German Life and Letters, entitled Heinrich von Kleist: Performance and Performativity (2011); the co-editor of the volumes Kleist, Education and Violence: The Transformation of Ethics and Aesthetics and Konstruktive und destruktive Funktionen von Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (2012), and Re-Imagining DEFA: East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts (2016); and the co-author of the monograph Unverhoffte Wirkungen: Erziehung und Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (2014). His most recent book, Screening Art: Modernism and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema (2019), investigates questions of intermediality and spans not only film, but also literature, music, and the visual arts in post-war cinema. JEFFREY L. HIGH is Professor in German Studies, Comparative Literature, and Honors at California State University, Long Beach, CA. ANDREW CUSACK is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of St Andrews, UK BERND FISCHER is Emeritus Academy Professor at the Ohio State University. ELYSTAN GRIFFITHS is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in German Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of the monographs Political Change and Human Emancipation in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist (2005) and The Shepherd, the Volk, and the Middle Class: Transformations of Pastoral in German-Language Writing, 1750-1850 (2020). Along with David Hill, he published the first complete edition of J.M.R. Lenz's writings on social and military reform, based on extensive manuscript holdings in Krakow, Berlin and Riga. He is currently working on a project on the relationship between obedience and agency in German culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. WOLF KITTLER is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published widely with monographs on Franz Kafka and Heinrich von Kleist. Recent publications on Impressionism as an effect of the chemical dye industry, on the history of the Greek alphabet from Euripides to Plato, on early wireless technology, on music in Jean Jacques Rousseau's work, on the history of the concept of "risk," and on transformations in perspective painting from Leon Battista Alberti to Salvador Dali. Works in progress include: On Wings of Light: A Cultural History of Telecommunication from Antiquity to the Present, and Echo's Echoes: From Freud to Lacan. SUSANNE KORD is Professor of German at University College London and has published widely on crime and antisemitism, ethics in horror films, women and violent crime, and many other books and essays on film (especially genre and Hollywood movies), women's literary history and reception, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture. She has received 6 major awards for her writing. In the interest of making some of women's unknown literature available to modern readers, she has edited four collections of plays by women and translated three dramas into English. Her major works include Murderesses in German Writing, 1720-1860 (Cambridge UP, 2013), Lovable Crooks and Loathsome Jews: Antisemitism in German and Austrian Crime Writing Before the World Wars (McFarland, 2018). Her latest book is a short exploration of Drew Goddard's meta-horror film The Cabin in the Woods (2012), forthcoming with Liverpool University Press in 2022. ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. LAURA ANNA MACOR is Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Verona. CHRISTIAN MOSER is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn. MARY ORR is Buchanan Chair of French at the University of St Andrews since 2016, after holding Professorships in French at the Universities of Exeter and Southampton. A specialist of intertextuality and nineteenth-century French literatures that overtly engage with new scientific understanding, Mary's monograph publications include her ground-breaking Intertextuality: Debates and Contexts (Polity, 2003) and Flaubert's Tentation: Remapping Nineteenth-Century French Histories of Religion and Science (Oxford UP, 2008). Her recent publications on transnational figures, including women, in nineteenth-century French sciences challenge essentializing assumptions and categories as their titles imply, "Mainstream or Tributary? The Question of 'Hibernian' Fishes in Thompson's The Natural History of Ireland (1856)," in Nature and the Environment, ed. Matthew Kelly (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019), "Les Memoires du baron Georges Cuvier (1833) de Mistress Lee : memoires scientifiques, pacte biographique, ou reecriture des savoirs ?," in Litterature Francaise et Savoirs Biologiques au XIXe Siecle: Traduction, Transmission, Transposition, ed. Thomas Kinkert and Gisele Seginger (Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter Open Access, 2020), and "Collecting Women in Geology: Opening the International Case of a Scottish 'Cabinetiere,' Eliza Gordon Cumming (c. 1798-1842)," in Celebrating 100 Years of Female Fellowship of the Geological Society: Discovering Forgotten Histories, ed. Cynthia Burek and Bettie Higgs (London: Geological Society Special Publications, 506, 2020). HELMUT J. SCHNEIDER is Professor (emeritus) fuer neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft an der Universitaet Bonn. He has also held positions at the University of California, Irvine und Davis. He has published widely on German literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries on the European pastoral tradition, utopian landscapes, the literature of the Enlightenment and on German neoclassicism (in particular on Lessing, Kleist, Goethe). His most recent monograph is Genealogie und Menschheitsfamilie: Dramaturgie der Humanitaet von Lessing bis Buechner (Berlin: Berlin University Press, 2011). REBECCA STEWART received her M.A. in German Studies at CSULB and is pursuing her doctoral studies as an Ashford Fellow in Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. REBECCA STEWART received her M.A. in German Studies at CSULB and is pursuing her doctoral studies as an Ashford Fellow in Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. MICHAEL WHITE is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of St Andrews and head of the UK and Ireland section of the Theodor Fontane Gesellschaft.