Joep Leerssen is Professor of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. His publications address the role of literature in cultural memory and national identities, and the transnational development of cultural nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe. He heads the Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms (SPIN, www.spinnet.eu).
Ann Rigney is Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, Netherlands. She has published widely in the field of historical fiction, historiography and cultural memory studies, including most recently The Afterlives of Walter Scott: Memory on the Move (2012).
