Eva Ulrike Pirker is Senior Lecturer in Anglophone Studies and Literary Translation at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany, where she also curates the Centre for Translation Studies' programme (ctsdus.hhu.de).

Judith Rahn is Lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. She has published on issues of posthumanism, affect and monstrosity.