Christopher Young is University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages at Pembroke College.

Michael Eskin was educated in Israel, Germany, France, Minnesota, and New Jersey, and is the cofounder and Vice President of Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc. Studio & Publishing, as well as the Vice President of SCALG, the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German. A former Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, he has also taught at the University of Cambridge and at Columbia University. His many publications on cultural, philosophical, and literary subjects include: THE WISDOM OF PARENTHOOD: AN ESSAY (2013), Nabokovs Version von Puskins Evgenij Onegin: Zwischen Version und Fiktion eine ubersetzungs- und fiktionstheoretische Untersuchung (1994); Ethics and Dialogue in the Works of Levinas, Bakhtin, Mandel shtam, and Celan (2000); On Literature and Ethics: A Special Edition of Poetics Today (2004); Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grunbein, Brodsky (2008); 17 Vorurteile, die wir Deutschen gegen Amerika und die Amerikaner haben und die so nicht ganz stimmen konnen (under the pseudonym Misha Waiman; 2008); Philosophical Fragments of a Contemporary Life (under the pseudonym Julien David; 2008); THE DNA OF PREJUDICE: ON THE ONE AND THE MANY (2010; winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Social Change); The Bars of Atlantis: Selected Essays by Durs Grunbein (2010; as editor). He has been a frequent guest on radio programs and lectures regularly on cultural, philosophical, and literary subjects across the US and Europe most recently, as a guest of the United States Department of State and the United States Consulate General Germany, The Federation of German-American Clubs, and Limmud, an international organization fostering cross-cultural Jewish education.

Karen Leeder is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in German, New College, Oxford.