Author: Hanjo Berressem

Anne Waldschmidt is professor of Disability Studies, Sociology and Politics of Rehabilitation at the University of Cologne, Germany. Hanjo Berressem, born in 1956, teaches American literature and culture at Universität zu Köln. He has published books on Thomas Pynchon, Witold Gombrowicz, Gilles Deleuze, Fèlix Guattari, and on the notion of intrinsic value, as well as over 100 articles in the fields of American fiction, literary studies, media studies, the interfaces of art and science, as well as the relation between literature and ecology. Moritz Ingwersen is Junior Professor and Chair of North American Literature and Future Studies at TU Dresden. He holds a joint Ph D in Cultural Studies and English from Trent University, Ontario, and the University of Cologne and has taught at the University of Konstanz, the University of Cologne, and the University of Arts Bremen. His research and teaching focus on critical intersections of the environmental humanities, speculative fiction, science & technology studies, and North American literatures.