He is the author of Narrating the Prison (Cambria Press, 2007) and Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama (University of Nebraska Press, 2016). Alber received fellowships and research grants from the British Academy, the German Research Foundation (DFG), and the Humboldt Foundation. In 2013, the German Association of University Teachers of English awarded him the prize for the best Habilitation written between 2011 and 2013. Between 2014 and 2016, he worked as a COFUND (Marie-Curie) Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) in Denmark. His project focused on the negotiation of Aboriginal identities in contemporary Australian narratives. Alber is currently President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN).

He is interested in Carey’s work as part and product of the neo-liberal regime of publishing that has commodified his celebrity and his fiction. He has published on Carey’s archive and the literary field in JASAL. His forthcoming article on Carey’s Jack Maggs and world literature will be published in Antipodes later in 2018. His interview with the American-Australian writer Dominic Smith was published in Antipodes in June 2016. He also acted as the Postgraduate Representative of ASAL (Association for the Study of Australian Literature) between 2015 and 2018. He has taught in the areas of Australian literature, modern and contemporary literature and critical theory.

In her research, she focuses on Postcolonial and Indigenous Studies as well as law and literature and cross-media studies. Katrin has published widely in the area of Australian literature and has combined postcolonial approaches with the Gothic, as well as with law and literature studies. She has held positions as Lecturer at the universities of Münster, Duisburg-Essen, and Cologne and since 2016 has been working as a Research Assistant at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

Currently she is pursuing her post-doc project entitled “Stories of Refugees: Renegotiating Human Rights and Sovereignty in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures” and will be hosting the biannual conference of the German Association for Australian Studies on “Migration and Refugees” in 2018.

He is editor of Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, the official journal of Deutscher Anglistenverband. Antor has published 11 books, among which there are English Literatures in International Contexts (2000), Inter- und Transkulturelle Studien: Theoretische Grundlagen und Interdisziplinäre Praxis (2006), Fremde Kulturen verstehen – fremde Kulturen lehren: Theorie und Praxis der Vermittlung interkultureller Kompetenz (2007) and From Interculturalism to Transculturalism: Mediating Encounters in Cosmopolitan Contexts (2010).

He teaches anglophone Australian literature from the colonial period to the present and has published numerous articles on Australian fiction, for example on Peter Carey, David Malouf, Richard Flanagan, Sam Watson, Andrew McGahan and others.

She did research and worked in London, UK and Heraklion, Crete from 2007 to 2009. Since 2012 she has been a Postdoc at the Department of English, American, and Celtic Studies, University of Bonn. Research, teaching and publications focus on Indigenous Literatures and Cultures, Postcolonial Theories, Pacific Literatures, Narratologies and Memory Studies.

From 2005 to 2010, Eva Bischoff taught North American History and Postcolonial Studies at the Universities of Cologne, Bonn, and Münster. From April 2010 to September 2011, she worked as a Lecturer at the Department of North American History of the John-F.-Kennedy Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin, and as a Postdoc Researcher at the DFG Research Center on “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood” (SFB 700).

His current research projects include DFG, ATN and DAAD funded studies on airport development and urban land use change both in Australia and other parts of the world.

Sebastian’s PhD project deals with sustainability transition pathways in the building sector using case studies from Brisbane (Australia) and Freiburg (Germany). Parts of his work were already published in international high-ranked journals. Sebastian is currently holding the Fellowship Grant for excellent doctoral students provided by the Graduate School of Geosciences (GSGS), University of Cologne. Click here for his homepage.

Finzsch has published about the history of genocides in North America. Starting with a comparative approach to genocide history, studying the histories of indigenous peoples in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, he morphed into one of the few German historians who work on Australia. In 2003 he was a awarded a fellowship by the HRC in Canberra for the study of Aboriginal history. Since then he has published numerous articles on Australian history.

She is a Research Associate at the University of Tasmania and keeps collaborating with colleagues from the University of Tasmania and the University of Sydney. Her most recent work in Australia involved a citizen science project (Topic: The effects of cats and dogs on wildlife in backyards in Hobart) and an international interdisciplinary workshop on chemical ecology and predator-prey interactions.

During her PhD and her Postdoc she taught in a variety of courses, among them Macquarie University: Behavioural ecology; University of Sydney: Ecological Methods, Ecological Principles for Environmental Scientists, Wildlife Ecology; University of Tasmania: Conservation Biology and Wildlife Management.

Gutenberg’s publications are predominantly about British culture and literature but because of her strong interest in postcolonial theory and migration, Australian literature has been (and will continue to be) a focus in her seminars. She also works on teaching Australian culture and literature in secondary schools.