ALEIDA ASSMANN is Professor of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Her research interests include the history and media theory of reading and writing, cultural concepts of time and historical anthropology. A central and ongoing focus of her research has been the study of memory as an individual, collective and cultural phenomenon, including literary representations of trauma. Recent publications include Arts of Memory andMemory in a Global Age, which she co-edited with Sebastian Conrad.
LINDA SHORTTis Lecturer in German at Bangor University, UK. She has held teaching appointments atUniversityCollege Dublin, Ireland,and the University of Konstanz, Germany. Her research focuses on contemporary German literature and culture, concepts of belonging and representations of old age, illness and death. She is co-editor of Debating German Cultural Identities with Anne Fuchs and Kathleen James Chakraborty.
