Nora Plesske is Assistant Professor for Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Magdeburg. She studied International Cultural and Business Studies and subsequently gained her PhD and Habilitation in English Literary and Cultural Studies at Passau University. Her doctoral thesis The Intelligible Metropolis: Urban Mentality in Contemporary London Novels (transcript 2014) was awarded the Helene-Richter-Prize by the German Association for the Study of English.She has since published widely in the areas of urban cultural and literary studies and co-edited the collection Transforming Cities: Discourses of Urban Change (Winter 2018) as well as a special issue on Scotland’s urban heritage for Angles (2023). At the moment, she leads the BMBF-funded research project transSCAPE: Cultural Spaces of Knowledge on culture-led regeneration and cultural transfer. Her other main research areas include postcolonial studies, transcultural theory, material culture studies, and economic criticism. Since 2021, she has been co-ordinating the DFG-funded research network Methodologies of Economic Criticism with Ellen Grünkemeier and Joanna Rostek; the network’s Introducing Economic Criticism: Methods for Analysing Literature, Culture, and the Economy is forthcoming with Palgrave in 2025. Moreover, Nora Plesske is also currently preparing a monograph entitled Colonial Objects: Translocation in the Second British Empire for publication.

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Maria Hofrichter studied British Studies at the University of Regensburg, where she subsequently worked as a research assistant and lecturer in British literature and culture and completed her PhD. For her doctoral thesis, New and Old Women: Intergenerationality and Contested Spaces in New Woman and (Anti-)Suffrage Writing, she was awarded the Dr. Katharina Sailer Foundation Prize of the University of Regensburg. She currently works as a research assistant in the BMBF-funded research project FALKO-PV (Fachspezifische Lehrkraftkompetenzen – Prädiktive Validierung) and coordinates the BMBF-funded research project WRITE (Wissenschaftliches Schreiben im Interdisziplinären Team) at the University of Regensburg. Her research interests include age(ing) studies, gender studies, spatial theory, first-wave feminism, and Victorian and Edwardian literature. Her further research areas are the professional knowledge of English teachers and subject-specific criteria for teaching quality in English.

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Eva Fiedler gained a BA Hon in English Language and Literature (1^st Class) at King’s College London. Having received a research travel bursary she wrote her dissertation on footstepping the journey of the eighteenth century traveller Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in her Turkish Embassy Letters. This led to an MSt in Creative Writing (Distinction) at the University of Oxford, where she was also awarded the A M Heath prize for the year’s best piece of fiction written by a graduating student. Before her recent move from London she was the curator of a significant international private art collection. She is currently writing both fiction and non-fiction projects.