Nadine Boehm-Schnitker holds a PhD from the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, where she works as a Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural Studies. She is interested in intersections of different fields of knowledge, and has published on a variety of subjects, among them cultural hermeneutics, postcolonial translation and the role of religious and ethical discourses in contemporary literature and popular film.

Susanne Gruss is a Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. She specializes in contemporary literature and culture, and has published a monograph on contemporary feminist writing. Her research interests include film and media studies, contemporary literature, neo-Victorianism and, more recently, Jacobean tragedy.