Barbara Kosta, PhD from UC, Berkeley, is Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on gender and ethnicity in twentieth and twenty-first century German-speaking literature, film and visual culture with publications on autobiographical writing, the 1920s modern woman, and women writers. Kosta is the recipient of Fulbright and DAAD awards.

Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger¿is Professor emerita of German, founder of the Max-Kade-Center at Lafayette College and member of the Jelinek-Forschungszentrum.¿ Publications include¿Elfriede Jelinek: Writing Woman, Nation, and Identity¿(2007), PASSAGES: Borders-Crossing-Openings. Conversations with Austrian Writers¿(2021), "Die Jelinek-Literatur und das angloamerikanische Publikum" (2024).