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Associate Professor of American Studies in the English Department at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, France. Her research has dealt primarily with the American family during the postwar era. She is interested in the ways in which the white, heterosexual, middle-class nuclear family has come to represent traditional conceptions of American family life. As part of this research, she has attempted to frame the 1950s within a long historical perspective, tracing the antecedents of the “breadwinning father/husband” and “caretaking mother/wife” to the late 19th century. She looks at these roles as expressed during the 1950s as a sort of zenith of long historical trends that ultimately contributed to the social, political, and cultural transformations of this era. She is currently transforming this work into a book. She is co-managing editor of InMedia, her research lab’s academic journal. She has published articles on national youth culture, access to reproductive rights and sexuality education, choices available to pregnant teens before Roe v. Wade, and heteronormative hysteria during the second Red Scare. She has also co-edited special issues on the politicization of women and intimacy in the Americas, the varied nature of reproductive justice and rights in the US, and the liberal consensus as a normative framework to study intersectionality, transgression, and marginality during the postwar era.

Email: christen.bryson-charle@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr

Marie Dücker is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the Department of American Studies at the University of Graz where she also teaches American literary and cultural studies. Her research interests are in intermediality studies, cognitive literary studies, affect studies, and feminist literary criticism. She holds a PhD from the University of Graz and her dissertation, Affect and Emotion in the Intermedial Interfaces of the Contemporary American Young Adult Suicide Novel, was awarded the Fulbright Prize of American Studies in 2019. Her doctoral research was supported by a research grant from the JungforscherInnenfonds of the University of Graz and a doctoral fellowship for women by the University of Graz. Several study abroad opportunities in the United States and holding a Joint Master’s Degree from the University of Roehampton, United Kingdom, contributed to her gaining a highly nuanced understanding of current trends within American Studies. She has significant experience in researching and teaching, worked as a Teaching Associate at Williams College, Massachusetts, and has been teaching a variety of classes on literature and cultural phenomena at the undergraduate level at the University of Graz since 2015. Marie has published in the fields of American literature, affect studies, and intermediality studies. She is currently working on her first book project as well as researching on her second project on the climate change graphic novel.

E-mail: marie.duecker@uni-graz.at

Assistant Professor at the Department of British and American Studies at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. Her research interests encompass American minority literatures, critical race, postcolonial and gender studies. She has published extensively on South Asian American literature, with a special focus on literary representations of female sexuality and female body. She is the author, among others, of Bicultural Bodies: A Study of South Asian American Women’s Literature (Peter Lang, 2013). As a co-coordinator of the ExRe(y) project encompassing biannual conferences and publications devoted to the most recent developments in American literature and culture, she has co-edited three volumes: Spaces of Expression and Repression in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture (Peter Lang, 2017), Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Culture (Peter Lang, 2019), and a special issue of the Polish Journal for American Studies (Fall 2021, EXtREme 21: Going Beyond in Post-Millennial North American Literature and Culture). She was a visiting professor at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland and the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. In 2021, as a Kosciuszko Foundation fellow, she was researching her second book project on Polish American literature at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.

Email: izakimak@gmail.com / izabella.kimak@mail.umcs.pl

Elisabetta Marino is Associate Professor English literature at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. She is the author of four monographs: a volume on the figure of Tamerlane in British and American literature (2000); an introduction to British Bangladeshi literature (2005); a study on the relationship between Mary Shelley and Italy (2011); an analysis of the Romantic dramas on a mythological subject (2016). In 2006 she published the first Italian translation of poems by Maria Mazziotti Gillan. Between 2001 and 2019 she edited/co-edited ten collections of essays (three more are forthcoming) and a Special Forum of Journal of Transnational American Studies, dedicated to Sau-Ling C. Wong (2012). She has just co-edited a special issue of De-Genere. Journal of Postcolonial, Literary and Gender Studies (March, 2022), entitled “Transnational Subjects and Intercultural Identities: Travel and the Global South”, and she is currently acting as guest editor for a special issue of Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST) focused on Italian American material culture (to be released in 2023). She has published extensively on the English Romantic writers (especially Mary Shelley and P.B. Shelley), Indian diasporic literature, travel literature, and Italian American literature. She has been teaching both English and American literature for over twenty years.

Email: marino@lettere.uniroma2.it

Senior lecturer (Akademische Rätin) for Gender and Diversity Studies at the English Department of the University of Cologne, Germany, and co-editor of the academic blog Food, Fatness, Fitness: Critical Perspectives (http://foodfatnessfitness.com/, together with Evangelia Kinfinger and Nina Mackert). She conducted research as a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The New School, UC Riverside, and Barnard College. Her research focuses on American literatures and dance forms of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, critical and cultural theory, especially new materialist and feminist theory and critical posthumanism. Her first book, Walking the Möbius Strip: An Inquiry into Knowing in Richard Powers’s Fiction (Winter, 2016), draws on feminist epistemology and psychoanalysis to highlight the non-propositional aspects of cognition that escape the frameworks of scientific empiricism and can only be known through the mediation of fictional narrative. She is currently working on her second book project, “Becoming-Body: Technologies of the Self in American Modern Dance,” in which she explores the implications of corporeal materiality for the construction of subjectivity and freedom in American modern dance techniques. As part of this research, she spent a semester at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and she took classes in Duncan and Dunham technique. She has published in the fields of American literature, cultural theory, and dance studies, including the co-edited collection Communicating Disease: Cultural Representations of American Medicine (with Carmen Birkle) and articles in Dance Chronicle and Hypatia.

jpitetti@uni-koeln.de

Annessa Ann Babic
Independent Scholar (United States)
2014-2019

Carmen Birkle
Philipps-University of Marburg (Germany)
2010–2014

Rubén Cenamor
Universidad de Barcelona (Spain)
2014–2018

Ingrid Gessner
Vorarlberg University of Education, Feldkirch (Austria)
2014-2022

Susanne Leikam
Independent Scholar (Germany)
2016-2019

Marta J. Lysik
University of Wroclaw (Poland)
April-November 2019

Justine Tally
University of La Laguna (Spain)
2010–2014

Meldan Tanrisal
Hacettepe University (Turkey)
2012–2014

Tanfer Emin Tunç
Hacettepe University (Turkey)
2012-2019