Artemis Alexiou
Senior lecturer, York St John University, York 

Dr Artemis Alexiou is a senior lecturer in design history (York St John University, UK). Her research concentrates on late 19th century feminist periodicals, especially to the manner in which design practice, visual culture, and text co-existed and co-functioned in relation to gender politics. She is a member of ESPRit, the Royal Historical Society, Women’s History Network, and the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. She has held faculty roles at Manchester Metropolitan University and other HE institutions in the UK, and presented her work internationally. Her forthcoming edited volume is due in September 2022, and is entitled Women in Print: Design and Identities (Alexiou & Roberto, 2022). 

Pierluigi Allotti 
Adjunct professor, Department of Political Science, Sapienza University, Rome

Pierluigi Allotti, is an adjunct Professor of History of Journalism and Mass Communication at Sapienza University of Rome (Department of Political Science), and a professional journalist at Askanews, one of the leading Italian news agencies. He is the author of several books and academic articles. His last book (written with Raffaele Liucci), «Corriere della Sera». Biografia di un quotidiano (il Mulino), was published in October 2021. His research interests lie in the fields of History of Modern Italy; Press and Politics; Soccer and Society. He is currently writing an intellectual biography of Giovanni Sartori for the Italian publisher il Mulino.  

Eszter Balázs 
Assistant professor, Department of Media and Communication Studies, Kodolányi János University of Applied Arts, Budapest 

Eszter Balázs is an assistant professor at Kodolányi János University of Applied Arts, Department of Media and Communication Studies (Budapest). She holds a PhD from EHESS (Paris) and ELTE (Budapest) in ‘Histoire et Civilisations’ (2008) and published a book on Hungarian classical modernist literary journals (1908–1914). She is an occasional contributor to the review Mil Neuf Cent. Revue d’histoire intellectuelle (since 2010) and is on the editorial board of the Hungarian review Médiakutató (Research on Media, since 2012). Between 2017 and 2021 she was director of research at Petőfi Literary Museum – Kassák Museum on avant-garde journals. Since 2022 she has been appointed to the scientific committee du Centre international de recherche de l’Historial de la Grande Guerre. 

Piroska Balogh 
Associate professor, Institute of Hungarian Literature and Cultural Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 

Associate professor of the Department of Hungarian Literary History of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Institute of Hungarian Literary and Cultural Studies, Eötvös Loránd University. Most important research areas: neohumanism, history of aesthetics, republic of letters, Latin journalism. Most relevant publications on the topic of paper: The Language Question and the Paradoxes of Latin Journalism in Eighteenth-century Hungary. In: Gábor, Almási; Lav, Šubarić (eds.) Latin at the Crossroads of Identity: The Evolution of Linguistic Nationalism in the Kingdom of Hungary, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers (2015), pp. 166-189; Az Ephemerides Budenses szerepe a magyar drámatörténetben. In: Czibula, Katalin; Demeter, Júlia; Pintér, Márta Zsuzsanna (eds.) A szövegtől a szcenikáig: Tanulmányok a dráma- és színháztörténet köréből, Eger: Líceum (2016), pp. 414-431; Johann Ludwig Schedius’s Literärischer Anzeiger and the Tradition of Critical Journalism in the Kingdom of Hungary around 1800. In: Dóbék, Ágnes; Mészáros, Gábor; Vaderna, Gábor (eds.) Media and Literature in Multilingual Hungary 1770–1820, Budapest: Reciti (2019), pp. 207-219; "...quibus Linguae Hungaricae propagatio cordi est": Az Ephemerides Budenses a magyar nyelvhasználat kérdéseiről. In: Bíró, Ferenc (ed.) Tanulmányok a magyar nyelv ügyének 18. századi történetéből, Budapest: Argumentum (2005), pp. 23-69. (with Márton Szilágyi as co-author); Ephemerides Budenses o problemach uzywania jezika wegierskiego, In: Jerzy, Axer; Szörényi, László (eds.) Latinitas Hungarica : Łacina w kulturze węgierskiej, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo DiG, Wydzial Artes Liberales UW (2013), pp. 439-479. (with Márton Szilágyi as co-author). 

Stanislava Barać  
Senior research associate, Institute for Literature and Arts, Belgrade 

Stanislava Barać is a senior research associate at the Institute for Literature and Arts in Belgrade (Department: Periodicals in the History of Serbian Literature and Culture). After having graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade in 2003, at the Department of Serbian Literature and Language with Comparative Literature, she obtained MS as well as her PhD degree in Literary Science at the same faculty in 2007 and 2014, respectively. She has authored fifty articles and two monographs (Avant-garde “Thought”, 2008, Feminist Counter-Public: The Genre of Female Portraiture in Serbian Periodicals 1920–1941, 2015). She co-edited three volumes (The Russian Archive Magazine 1928–1937 and the Culture of Russian Immigration in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia, 2015; Children’s Periodicals: the Yugoslav Heritage 1918–1991, 2019; and The First World War and Slavic Literatures, 2021). 

Flóra Barkóczi 
Art historian, archivist and researcher, Artpool Art Research Center – Central European Research Institute of Art History, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest 

Flóra Barkóczi is an art historian working as an archivist and researcher at Artpool Art Research Center – Central European Research Institute of Art History – Museum of Fine Arts Budapest. She is also a PhD student at the Film, Media and Contemporary Culture PhD program at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. At Artpool she is responsible for the development and research of materials based on new media and digital technologies since the 1980s. Her research focus includes new media art, fine art photography from the 1970s on, internet-based art practices from the 1990s on, archival practices in the post-digital environment, and the potentials of digital publishing. As a PhD candidate she is focusing on the development of digital culture and media art in Hungary and the East-Central European region in the nineties and its conditions determined by the establishment of liberal democracies right after the change of the regime.  

Dario Boemia 
Member of the research group on periodical studies, IULM University, Milan 

Dario Boemia holds a PhD in Visual and Media Studies from the IULM University in Milan. His research interests include periodical studies, contemporary Italian literature and comics. Some of his latest publications are Captions and the Narrator’s Voice in Italian Comics: Homodiegetic and Autodiegetic Narration in Zerocalcare’s Forget my Name (2019), La recensione letteraria a fumetti tra gli anni Sessanta e gli anni Settanta in Italia (2019), Alle 'soglie' dei Sillabari di Goffredo Parise: Dalla terza pagina alle edizioni in volume (2020), and L’intelligenza malinconica. Il dibattito intorno al Neorealismo sulla rivista La Chimera (1954-1955) (2021). He is the author of the monograph I denti dell'arte. La letteratura entre-deux-guerres nell’Italiano di Leo Longanesi (2020) and co-editor with Stefano Locati of the volume Book Reviews and Beyond. Critical Authority, Cultural Industry, and Society in Periodicals Between the 18th and the 21st Century (2021). He belongs to the research group on periodical studies at IULM University in Milan. 

Marie Boivent 
Associate professor, University Rennes 2, Rennes 

Marie Boivent is Associate Professor of Visual Art at the University Rennes 2, France. She defended her PhD devoted to artists’ periodicals in 2011, and published it as a volume, La revue d’artiste. Enjeux et spécificité d’une pratique artistique (The Artist’s Periodical. Issues and specific features of an art practice, Editions Incertain Sens, Rennes) in 2015. She curated the first exhibition in France fully devoted to artists’ periodicals in collaboration with the Kandinsky Library – Centre Pompidou, Paris (exhibition catalogue: Revues d’artistes, une sélection, 2008). In 2014, she organized the international symposium The Territories of Artists’ Periodicals in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Perkins at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (proceedings published by Plagiarist Press – Éditions Provisoires, 2015). She has written several chapters for edited volumes and articles about artists’ periodicals, notably for JAB: The Journal of Artists’ Books (Chicago), Kritische Berichte (Berlin), Porto Arte, Revista de Artes Visuais (Rio Grande do Sul), Boletín de Arte (La Plata), and La Nouvelle Revue d’Esthétique, Marges (Paris). Her last publication devoted to artists’ periodicals is “Les revues d’Edgardo Antonio Vigo, vecteurs d’échanges et laboratoires artistiques”, published in Sismographie des luttes, vers une histoire globale des revues critiques et culturelles, edited by Zahia Rahmani and Florence Duchemin-Pelletier (Paris, INHA, 2021). 

Aleksandar Bošković 
Lecturer in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University, New York 

Dr. Aleksandar Bošković, a lecturer in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University in New York. He is a scholar of Russian and East European modernism, Yugoslav, post-Yugoslav and Balkan Studies, with a strong background in comparative literature, critical theory, and visual studies. Bošković specializes in avant-garde literature and experimental art practices explored through the lenses of comparative media. He is the author of The Poetic Humor in Vasko Popa’s Oeuvre (2008), and co-editor of The Fine Feats of ‘Five Cockerel’s Gang’ (2022) and Zenithism: A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology (2022). His articles have appeared in scholarly journals in the United States and Europe (Apparatus, Cultural Critique, Digital Icons, Književna istorija, SEEJ, Slavic Review) as well as in various edited collections. He is the recipient of several grants and fellowships, including Collegium de Lyon Fellowship (2019-2020).

Klára Brůhová 
Assistant professor, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague – Faculty of Architecture, CTU, Prague 

Klára Brůhová is an architectural historian and assistant professor at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and at the Faculty of Architecture, CTU in Prague. Her academic research is focused on post-war architecture in the Czech Republic and the issues of its monument protection. She is a (co)editor and (co)author of several books: Nepostavená architektura 80. let [Unbuilt Eighties] (2020); Beton, Břasy, Boletice. Praha na vlně brutalismu [Brutalist Prague] (2019); Praha nepostavená [Unbuilt Prague] (2017). She is also currently researching the topic of women in the 20th century architecture. She is co-leader of the research project "Women in Czech Architecture" (since 2021). 

Caterina Caputo 
External Assistant, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze 

Caterina Caputo received her PhD in History of Art in a joint program from the Universities of Florence, Pisa and Siena. Her research interests and publications lie at the intersection of collecting, the art market, cultural dissemination, and transnational exchanges related to Surrealism, Avant-gardes, and Modernity. Additionally, she conducted research on Giorgio de Chirico, as well as on the history of collecting in Italy in the interwar period, focusing on the relationship between the political power and contemporary art. She published the book Collezionismo e mercato. La London Gallery e la diffusione dell’arte surrealista, 1938–1950 (2018), and several articles in academic journals. She has been awarded a post-doc fellowship at the Frick Collection Art Reference Library (2018), as well as at the Center for Italian Modern Art in New York (2019). Recently, she has won the Jacqueline Delcourt Nonkels Prize from the King Baudouin Foundation of Brussels (2021) for her research on the Belgian artist E.L.T. Mesens. Since 2019 she has been an External Assistant for the course in History of Contemporary Art and Photography at the University of Florence, and member of the Research-Lab “Gradiva-Centro di studi e ricerche sul surrealismo e sul modernismo”. Currently, she is conducting research on Surrealism after the Second World War and writing the book E.L.T. Mesens e il surrealismo in Italia negli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta (E.L.T. Mesens and Surrealism in Italy in the 1950s and 60s), forthcoming 2022. 

Carlotta Castellani 
Assistant professor, Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino 

Carlotta Castellani is assistant professor of contemporary art in the humanities department at Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo. She received her PhD in Art History, Literature and Cultural Studies in a joint program of the Universities of Florence and Paris IV Sorbonne (2016). Her thesis has been awarded with the Prize “Città di Firenze” by Florence University Press (2021). She received fellowships by different national and international institutions. Author of articles in international peer-review magazines, her studies focus on the Interwar period from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, with particular attention to the intersections between art and science and to the role of periodicals as laboratory of Modernism. Her most recent book is Una rivista costruttivista nella Berlino anni Venti: «G» di Hans Richter (Padova, Cleup, 2018). Forthcoming articles focus on the role of El Lissitzky in the 1920s Berlin context (RSF. Rivista di studi di fotografia - on print; Getty Research Journal, August 2022) and on the Italian interwar period through the lens of the magazine Industrie Italiane Illustrate by Umberto Notari (forthcoming monograph). 

Giorgio Di Domenico 
PhD student, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 

Giorgio Di Domenico is a second year PhD student in History of Art at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. His research interests include Postwar Italian Art and Magazine Studies. His doctoral research, supervised by Professor Flavio Fergonzi, investigates the critical reception, editorial spread, visual persistence, exhibition history, and commercial success of Surrealism in Italy between 1960 and 1989. In 2020, he earned his MA degree in History of Art at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale Superiore, defending a thesis dedicated to the magazine “La Città di Riga”. He has published papers on Jannis Kounellis (“Studi di Memofonte”, 2018) and Alberto Burri (“Annali della Scuola Normale”, 2022). He interned at La Galleria Nazionale, Roma and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New York. In spring 2022, he was a visiting student at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, The Department of Italian Studies at New York University.  

Giuseppe Di Natale 
Assistant professor, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, Aquila 

Giuseppe Di Natale received his PhD in Contemporary Art History in 2010 from the University of Florence. He has carried out research activities at the University of Florence, at INHA in Paris and attended advanced courses in Museology at the École du Louvre (2005). He has published several essays for international exhibition catalogues and published the results of his research on Courbet, Matisse, Duchamp, Surrealism, Informel in national and international scientific peer-reviewed journals. His research field is wide, with several focuses from the French Art of the Nineteenth century to the Italian Avant-garde of the Fifties and Sixties. He participated at numerous conferences in Europe (Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou), in the United States and in Japan. From 2013 to 2016 he was exhibition curator at Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara. Since February 2020 he is assistant professor at the University of L’Aquila, where he teaches Contemporary Art History. Two monographs are forthcoming in 2022, Courbet et l’Italie (Lienart Éditions, Paris), and Edouard Jaguer, Phases e l’Italia (L’Erma di Bretscheider, Roma). 

Hoda El Shakry 
Assistant professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, Chicago 

Hoda El Shakry is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. She is a scholar of twentieth- and twenty-first century cultural production from North Africa and the Middle East, with an emphasis on the relationship between aesthetics and ethics. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on Arabic and Francophone literature, visual culture, and criticism—particularly in the region of the Maghreb. Hoda El Shakry's book "The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb" (Fordham University Press, 2020) was awarded the MLA's 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies and the ACLA's 2018 ACLA Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Award. It examines the influence of the Qurʾan and Islamic philosophical traditions on twentieth-century novels from Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. Her current book project, "Printed Matter(s): Critical Histories of Maghrebi Cultural Journals," examines twentieth-century Arabic, Francophone, and bilingual cultural journals from the Maghreb. Her articles have appeared in: PMLA, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Expressions Maghrébines, ALIF: A Journal of Comparative Poetics, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: SITES, Journal of Arabic Literature, and GLQ. Hoda El Shakry serves on the Editorial Board of Middle Eastern Literatures, the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Modern Literature, and the Advisory Board of the African Feminist Initiative. Before joining the University of Chicago, she was an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Penn State and a Faculty Fellow at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. 

Júlia Fazekas 
PhD student, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 

Júlia Fazekas is a PhD student at Eötvös Loránd University’s Doctoral School of Literary Studies where she participates in the Hungarian and European Enlightenment Doctoral Programme. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the literary press of the first half of the nineteenth century. The Hungarian literary fashion magazines of the 1840s are in the centre of her research, but she also examines their connections to other European periodicals, mainly ones published in Austria, Germany, France, and Britain. Previously, she presented papers on international conferences organised by RSVP and ESPRit, and she participated in the ESPRit online seminar series in Spring 2021, which focused on popular illustrated periodicals. 

Annalisa Federici 
Assistant professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Roma Tre University, Rome 

Annalisa Federici holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Perugia and is Assistant Professor of English Language and Translation at Roma Tre University. Her main research areas are literary modernism (especially James Joyce and Virginia Woolf), formal and stylistic aspects in fiction, the relationship between language and psychological processes, as well as periodical and reception studies. She is the author of the monographs Il linguaggio e la realtà. La narrativa modernista di Virginia Woolf e James Joyce (2011) and “In a Kind of Retrospective Arrangement”: Essays on James Joyce and Memory (2016), along with critical essays and book chapters on Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Ford Madox Ford, Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor. 

Éva Fisli 
Curator, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest 

Éva Fisli is a historian, a curator and an author who graduated in History and Literature at Eötvös University (ELTE), Budapest as a fellow of Eötvös Collegium. In 2012 she obtained a PhD at Sciences Po Paris and ELTE Budapest. Between 2005 and 2009 she was a registrar and an exhibition coordinator at the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest. Since 2009 she has been working at the Historical Photo Department of the Museum as a curator of exhibits. She is responsible for the international photo collection and the collection of cityscapes. From 2012 to 2018 she was the secretary of the Hungarian Society for the History of Photography and editor of its website (www.mafot.hu). She edited Fényképtárgy / Material photograph and Fotográfusnők, a conference book about Women photographers (2020). She is also the coeditor of Rosti, published in 2021. 

Photo: Tóth Masa

Lise Foket 
Scientific collaborator, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Ghent University, Ghent 

Lise Foket is a scientific collaborator at the interdisciplinary Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities at Ghent University. She is involved in various research projects and teaching practices that make use of IIIF, Madoc and Omeka S. Her personal research interests include animal history, social history and ecological history. 

Meghan Forbes 
Independent scholar 

Meghan Forbes holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2019–2021) and C-MAP Fellow for Central and Eastern Europe at the Museum of Modern Art (2017–2019). Dr. Forbes publishes regularly in a range of academic and popular publications and has contributed to monographs and exhibition catalogues on the artists Alice Trumbull Mason, Toyen, and Władysław Strzemiński. She is also the sole editor of International Perspectives on Publishing Platforms (Routledge, 2019). Additionally, she maintains her own print practice as the founder and editor of harlequin creature, a micro-press arts and literature imprint, which recently was the focus of the retrospective exhibition hc(x)change (April–May 2022) at the Blackburn 20|20 gallery of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York.  

Eloïse Forestier 
Postdoctoral researcher, Ghent University, Ghent 

Eloïse Forestier is an FWO postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University (2021–2024). Her project traces the British and French roots of Swedish feminism through the study of Swedish periodicals of the late 19th century. She also specializes in British literature, culture, and periodical studies in the long 19th century. She has published several articles on the political influence of women editors from Britain, France and Sweden. She has obtained a Curran Fellowship (RSVP, 2021) to research and write a monograph based on her doctoral dissertation. She is part of the editorial team of JEPS (Journal of European Periodical Studies). 

Judit Galácz 
Art historian, Central European Research Institute for Art History, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest 

Judit Galácz graduated from history of art at Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities in 2011. She fulfilled the one-year master program of comparative history at the Central European University in 2013-2014. She studied in her thesis how the criticism published in two famous weekly journals affected the modernist processes of Hungarian theatre at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She worked as a public educational fellow at the exhibition place of Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute, the Gizi Bajor Actors’ Museum between 2014 and 2021. She curated an exhibition about the theatrical work of Lajos Kassák and the magazine MA in the Gizi Bajor Actors’ Museum. She currently works as an archivist at the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), ADK (Archive and Documentary Centre) and makes her doctoral research in the topic of János Mácza and the history of Hungarian avant-garde theatre in the first decades of twentieth century. She regularly writes studies and other articles in art magazines and other periodicals.  

Elisa Grilli 
PhD candidate, UVSQ-Paris Saclay University, Paris 

Elisa Grilli is agrégée in French and a Comparative Literature and Print Culture PhD candidate at the UVSQ-Paris Saclay University supervised by Evanghelia Stead. Her research bears on the networks of aesthetic magazines from the North to the South of Europe (Great Britain, France, Italy and Spain, 1890–1910). She has contributed to periodical research two articles in peer-reviewed journals, four chapters in peer-reviewed volumes (including The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, vol. 3. Europe), and authored articles on Marinetti and D'Annunzio in Dictionnaire du dandysme (2016). The proposed paper is based on a chapter of her PhD on transnational communication and periodical networks (human, textual and visual) to be defended in Spring 2022. 

Magdolna Gucsa  
PhD candidate, EHESS, Paris – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 

Magdolna Gucsa holds an MA degree in Art History. She is currently completing her PhD in the department of History at EHESS-Paris and ELTE BTK Budapest. She is mainly interested in the links between Anarchism and Art in the first half of the 20th century, in the social history of Eastern-European artists in Paris including but not limited to aliens law enforcement, artistic platforms, and the discourse around the so-called Ecole de Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. 

Fabio Guidali 
Researcher, University of Milan, Milan 

Fabio Guidali, PhD in contemporary history, is a research fellow at the History Department of the University of Milan. His main research fields are history of Twentieth-century culture, with particular attention to associations, networks and forms of political commitment, and European studies. His research also focuses on history of journalism and on the popular press. He is the author of Gabriele Mucchi. Una biografia intellettuale e politica (Milan 2012) and Scrivere con il mondo in testa. Intellettuali europei tra cultura e potere (Milan-Udine 2016). He is a member of the ESPRit Committee. 

Petra Hlaváčková 
Independent scholar 

Petra Hlaváčková is an architecture historian, curator, and journalist, who has a long-term research interest in feminist approaches in architecture history and gender equality in urban planning. As a co-founder of the 4AM Forum for Architecture and Media she was involved in creating exhibitions such as Kill Your Idol (13th Architecture Venice Biennale) or Compact City. She edits the Brno Architecture Manual and worked as an editor for the A2 cultural biweekly and the ERA21 architecture magazine. She has received international scholarships such Milena Jesenská Fellowship in the Institute of Human Science in Vienna. She edited Architecture of Care (2019) and she is co-author of several documentary films. She is a PhD candidate at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design Prague. She is a member of the research project “Women in Czech Architecture” (since 2021). 

Halyna Hleba  
Curator, War Time Archive, MOCA NGO 

Halyna Hleba an art historian, bachelor of theory and history of art from National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture in Kyiv, author of publications on Ukrainian art and photography, lecturer on public art program, co-curator of War Time Archive at MOCA NGO. Her previous research related to the regional phenomena of unofficial Ukrainian art of the Soviet period and rethinking the place and role of dissent in art, the phenomenon of "silent protests" in art, apartment exhibitions, the existence of double life of Soviet Ukrainian artists. She also has a keen interest in the longevity of traditions and attempts to maintain one's own identity through the cultural policy of the Soviet government. These foci of her research have been reflected in the publications: Kharkiv School of Photography: Body Politics. (Non) Soviet Corporeality in Kharkiv Photography of the 1970s – 1990s. 

Andrew Hobbs  
Senior lecturer, University of Central Lancashire, Preston 

Dr Andrew Hobbs is a senior lecturer in international journalism at the University of Central Lancashire, and a former journalist. His research focuses on sense of place and regional and local identities in provincial periodicals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His article, ‘Lancashire Life Magazine, 1947–73: A Middle-Class Sense of Place’ (Twentieth Century British History 2013) is the first academic analysis of the county magazine genre. His open-access book, A Fleet Street in every town: The provincial press in England, 1855-1900 (2018) won the 2019 Colby Prize from the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. He is currently working on the only known diaries of a UK nineteenth-century provincial journalist, Anthony Hewitson (1836-1912), with the first volume published this year. He will use a 2023 sabbatical for further research on county magazines. 

Elizabeth M. Holt  
Associate professor, Co-Director of Middle Eastern Studies, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson 

Dr. Elizabeth M. Holt is a cultural historian in the Division of Languages and Literature at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, where she co-directs the Middle Eastern Studies program. She is the author of Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel, and has new work on mercantilism out in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Dr. Holt is completing a history of Arabic in the cultural Cold War, with recent articles and chapters from the project appearing in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Research in African Literatures, and the Routledge Handbook to the Global Sixties, and forthcoming in the Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures.  

Mary Ikoniadou  
Senior lecturer, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds 

Dr Mary Ikoniadou is a Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at Leeds Beckett University. Her research on the intersection of visuality and politics, focuses on the role of print cultures during the Cold War. Research on the entanglement of image and text in the socio-political sphere, have been presented in numerous conferences and published by CeMoG at Freie Universitat Berlin (2017); Routledge (2017); Humanities journal (2020); University of Manchester Press (2022). Mary is in the editorial team of JEPS, Journal of European Periodical Studies and co-runs (in collaboration with Vincent Fröhlich (University of Marburg), the research project 'The Politics of the Page: Visuality and Materiality in Illustrated Periodicals across Cold War Borders'. 

Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel
Art historian, Full Professor at Geneva University in Switzerland (UNIGE), and chair of Digital Humanities 

Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel is an art historian, Full Professor at Geneva University in Switzerland (UNIGE), and chair of Digital Humanities. From 2009 she directs Artl@s (https://artlas.huma-num.fr), an international research platform on artistic globalisation. In this context, she coordinates the FNS Visual Contagions project at UNIGE (https://visualcontagions.unige.ch) and in Paris's École Normale Supérieure, where she was Assistant Professor in contemporary art history (2007–2019), the IMAGO Centre, dedicated to teaching, research and creation on the circulation of images in Europe (www.imago.ens.fr). Joyeux-Prunel works with digital tools on the social and global history of art in the contemporary period, and on globalisation through images. Her latest books are: Les avant-gardes artistiques – une histoire transnationale 1848-1918 (Gallimard, Folio histoire in paperback, 2016); Les avant-gardes artistiques – une histoire transnationale 1918-1945 (Gallimard Folio histoire in paperback, 2017); and Naissance de l'art contemporain (1945-1970) – Une histoire mondiale (CNRS Editions, 2021).

Photo: Campus, UNIGE

Tibor Kosztolánczy 
Senior lecturer, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 

Senior lecturer at the Institute of Hungarian Literature and Cultural Studies, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest. His main research area is Hungarian literature between 1900 and 1930, especially the Nyugat periodical and its writers. Author of a monograph of Ernő Osvát, the editor of Nyugat (A fiatal Osvát Ernő, Budapest Universitas: 2009), and co-editor of the collected correspondence of Osvát (Tessék színt vallani: Osvát Ernő szerkesztői levelezése, vol. 1–2., Ed. with E. Nemeskéri, Budapest, Gondolat, 2019). Other current interests include alter rock (David Bowie, Velvet Underground, The Smiths), and writing short stories. Recent publications: Kosztolánczy, T. (2021). A New Career in a New Town: David Bowie in Berlin (1976–1978). In: J. A. Bánházi et al (Eds.), Encounters of the Popular Kind: Traditions and Mythologies. Budapest, ELTE Eötvös Kiadó, 325–332. Kosztolánczy, T. (2021). Gittegylet és sorstragédia (Molnár Ferenc: A Pál utcai fiúk). In: Jelenkor 64(12), 1442–1447. Kosztolánczy, T. (2020). ”The Swallows Arrive Here From Argentina”: Sándor Márai’s Last Decade in San Diego. In: Sz. Simon (Ed.), Language and Literacy Section. Conference Proceedings, Komárno, Janos Selye University, 125–130. 

Jelena Lalatović 
Research assistant, Institute for Literature and Arts, Belgrade 

Jelena Lalatović is a research assistant at the Institute for Literature and Arts in Belgrade (Department: Periodicals in the History of Serbian Literature and Culture). In co-authorship with Hristina Cvetinčanin Knežević, she published A Guide to Gender-Sensitive Language in 2019. Her field of interest incorporates the history of (feminist) literary criticism, radical writing, periodical studies, and Yugoslavian literature. She has authored 15 papers so far. She is currently finishing her thesis entitled The Genres of Literary Criticism and Polemic in Student Periodical Press: the Oppositional Public Sphere at the University of Belgrade from 1937 to 1968. 

Imre Zsolt Lengyel 
Assistant professor, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 

Lengyel Imre Zsolt is a lecturer at the Department of Modern Hungarian Literature of Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Budapest. He was born in 1986 and gained his PhD degree in 2016 at ELTE. His PhD dissertation analysed the discourse surrounding young Hungarian writers coming from an accentuated rural background in the 1920s–1940s. His main area of research is the history of the social functions of art in the context of capitalist modernization, with a focus on the history of Hungarian literary criticism and theory. He regularly publishes interpretative essays on 20th- and 21st-century Hungarian prose fiction. 

Stefano Locati 
Post-doctoral research fellow, IULM University, Milan 

Stefano Locati is a post-doctoral research fellow at IULM University in Milan. His research focus is on Chinese and Japanese cinemas, adaptation studies, periodical studies, film and media studies. He holds a PhD in Literatures and Media and a master’s degree in philosophy. He is a member of the research group on periodical studies at Iulm University. He has co-edited with Dario Boemia the volume Book Reviews and Beyond. Critical Authority, Cultural Industry, and Society in Periodicals Between the 18th and the 21st Century (Biblion 2021) and has authored Sistema media mix. Cinema e sottoculture giovanili del Giappone contemporaneo (lit. “The Media Mix System. Cinema and Youth Subcultures of Contemporary Japan”, Mimesis 2022), La spada del destino. I samurai nel cinema giapponese dalle origini a oggi (lit. “The Sword of Doom. Samurai in Japanese Cinema from origins to the present”, Luni 2018), Il nuovo cinema di Hong Kong. Voci e sguardi oltre l’handover (lit. “New Hong Kong Cinema. Voices and Sights beyond the Handover”, with Emanuele Sacchi, Bietti 2014), and Evolution. Darwin e il cinema (lit. “Evolution. Darwin and cinema”, with Elena Canadelli, Le Mani 2009). 

Šárka Malošíková 
PhD student and instructor, Faculty of Architecture, CTU, Prague 

Šárka Malošíková is a practicing architect and a PhD student and instructor at the Faculty of Architecture, CTU in Prague. In 2019-2020, she was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado, Denver. Her research focuses on design-build projects and architectural education in general. She worked in several architectural offices both in Prague and abroad (e.g. Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Heide&von Beckerath). She is a member of the research project “Women in Czech Architecture” (since 2021). 

Annemarie McAllister 
Senior research fellow, University of Central Lancashire, Preston 

Dr. Annemarie McAllister is Senior Research Fellow in History at the University of Central Lancashire and has written widely on the cultural, social, and political history of the UK temperance movement. She has curated exhibitions including ‘Temperance and the Working Class’ at the People’s History Museum (2012–2013), ‘Temperance@190’ in Preston (2022) and the virtual exhibition at www.demondrink.co.uk.  Her many media appearances include A House Through Time (BBC 2, 2021) and In Our Time (Radio 4, 2022).  She has published on temperance periodicals in Victorian Periodicals Review and the Routledge Handbook of Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers, and has a monograph in press with Routledge, Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals: Conviction and Career, about the interrelationship of principles and writing. Her research for this was supported by a Curran Fellowship of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, 2019–2020.  

Jelena Milinković  
Research associate, Institute for Literature and Arts, Belgrade 

Jelena Milinković is a research associate at the Institute for Literature and Arts, Belgrade (Department: Periodicals in the History of Serbian Literature and Culture). She leads the project Women’s Movement 2020 (www.zenskipokret.org). She is a co-author of the book (in Serbian) Twenty Women That Marked the 20th Century in Serbia (2013) and a co-editor of the collections (in Serbian) New Reality from Her Own Room, the literary work of Milica Janković (2015), Do You Read Jelena Dimitrijević? (2018), and Women’s Movement (1920–1938): A collection of works (2021). 

Maria Nikolopoulou 
Laboratory and teaching staff, Department of Modern Greek Philology, National and Kapodistrian University, Athens 

Maria Nikolopoulou belongs to the Laboratory and Teaching Staff of the Department of Philology, National and Κapodistrian University of Athens. She studied Classics in the National and Κapodistrian University of Athens. She obtained an MA and a PhD in Modern Greek Literature in the Department of Modern Greek Studies, King's College London (supervisor: Prof. Roderick Beaton), as a scholarship recipient. She was a Regional Associate Fellow of the Nexus Project “How to think about the Balkans” run by the Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia (2002) and a Fellow in the research project “Women’s literary and artistic activity in Greek literary and art periodicals: 1900–1940”, run by the Athens School of Fine Arts (2005-7). She was a Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies of Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece (2020-2021). She has taught European and Modern Greek Literature at the University of Patras and the Hellenic Open University (adjunct lecturer). Her research interests include the reception of women’ s writing, the role of literature in the construction of memory of historical events, the role of periodicals in history of ideas and the post-war avant-garde. 

Matrona Paleou 
Adjunct lecturer, Hellenic Open University, Athens 

Matrona (Nina) Paleou studied at the University of Athens, School of Philosophy. She was awarded a Master’s degree in Modern Greek Studies at King’s College London and received her PhD in Modern Greek Literature from the University of Birmingham. She has also conducted postdoctoral research on Greek literary and art periodicals published between 1900 and 1940 at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her research interests lie in Greek Literature of the 20th century, especially poetry and prose fiction, and include the reception of literature, publication culture with a special focus on literary periodical press, cultural history and cultural mediations through literature and translation, as well as women’s writing. She works at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and teaches Modern Greek Literature at the Hellenic Open University. 

Clare Pettitt
King’s College, London

Clare Pettitt has taught English at King’s College London since 2005. She has published widely on nineteenth-century subjects with a particular interest in print culture, technology and media forms. Her books include Patent Inventions:  Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel (2004); ‘Dr Livingstone, I presume?’: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers and Empire (2007); Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity 1815-1848 (2020) and Serial Revolutions 1848: Writing, Politics, Form (2022).  In January 2023, Clare will take up the Grace 2 Chair in English at Cambridge University.

Nora Ramtke 
Post-doctoral researcher, Ruhr University, Bochum 

Nora Ramtke is a post-doctoral researcher at Ruhr-University of Bochum, a committee member at ESPRit and a member of the Research Unit 2288 Journal Literature, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). She is PI of the subproject ‘Collections Formats: Practices of Reprinting between Anthologisation of the Periodic and the Periodicisation of the Anthology’. Her research interests include periodicals, anthologies, and printing collections, focusing on the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as practices of imitation, media history, literary plagiarism, and copyright history. Nora Ramtke received her PhD in 2015 and published her first book on anonymity and onymity (Anonymität – Onymität. Autorname und Autorschaft in Wilhelm Meisters ›doppelten Wanderjahren‹, Heidelberg: Winter 2016). Recent publications include the edited volume Reading Journals. Coherence and Interruption (Hannover: Wehrhahn 2022), a special issue on German anthologies (German Life and Letters, special issue 70.1), and the article “Reviews as Re-Views: Onymity, Pseudonymity, Anonymity, and Kotzebue’s Life”, to be published 2022 in the Victorian Periodicals Review 55.2, edited by Laurel Brake, Fionnuala Dillane, and Mark Turner. 

Agnieszka Rejniak-Majewska 
Associate professor, Institute of Contemporary Culture, University of Łódź, Łódź  

Agnieszka Rejniak-Majewska is a researcher in modern art history and philosophy. In 2019 she received her habilitation from the Jagiellonian University, based on her study Obraz zwielokrotniony. Reprodukcja fotograficzna i wizualne narracje sztuki awangardowej 1910–1939 (Image Multiplied: Photographic reproduction and visual narratives of avant-garde art 1910–1939) [2017]. Her research interests comprise the history of modernist avant-gardes, their relations with the processes of modernization (“multiple modernities”), history of art criticism, methodology of art history, and theories and practices of the public sphere. In 2015 she conducted a research project as an invited scholar at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris, dedicated to the impact of visual reproduction on the concepts of early XXth century art history. In 2013 she worked as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago. Her publications include: Polityka doświadczenia: Clement Greenberg i tradycja formalistycznej krytyki sztuki (The Politics of Experience: Clement Greenberg and the tradition of formalist criticism) [2017]; Puste miejsce po krytyce? Modernizm i materialistyczna rewizja autonomii sztuki (Empty space left after criticism? Modernism and the materialist revision of artistic autonomy) [2014], Migracje modernizmu. Nowoczesność i uchodźcy (Migrations of Modernism: Modernity and Exiles) [2014, co-edited], and many journal articles and translations.  

Marianne Van Remoortel 
Associate professor, Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University, Ghent 

Marianne Van Remoortel is Associate Professor of English Literature at Ghent University, Belgium. Her expertise is in nineteenth-century poetry, women’s literature, and periodical studies. She is the author of Lives of the Sonnet, 1787–1895: Genre, Gender and Criticism (Ashgate, 2011) and Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical: Living by the Press (Palgrave, 2015) and editor-in-chief of the Journal of European Periodical Studies. In 2015‒21, she directed the ERC Starting Grant project ‘Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710–1920’. 

Maria Anna Rogucka 
PhD student, Jagiellonian University, Cracow – Humboldt University, Berlin 

Maria Anna Rogucka received a BA in European Studies with German from the University of Essex, followed by an MA in History of Art with Special Option 'Contacts and Contexts in Russian Art c. 1905-1945’ from Courtauld Institute of Art. Currently, she is completing her second MA in Art and Visual History at Humboldt University and has begun her interdisciplinary PhD programme at Jagiellonian University (Doctoral School in the Humanities & Doctoral School in the Social Sciences) under the supervision of Professor Roma Sendyka and Docent Veronika Čapská from Charles University in Prague. A primary focus of Maria's study is on the interrelated issues of twentieth-century Central and Eastern European museology and how avant-garde art collections in museums in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Germany have changed the museum landscape. She recently has been invited to participate in the graduate workshop 'Going Global: New Challenges in the Field of Provenance Research' hosted by Vitromusée Romont and will present her findings at the upcoming 8th biennial meeting of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM). 

Camilla Salvaneschi 
Postdoctoral fellow, Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice 

Camilla Salvaneschi is postdoctoral fellow at the Università Iuav di Venezia. She completed her PhD in Visual Culture from the University of Aberdeen and the Università Iuav di Venezia in 2021 with a thesis dedicated to the magazines published by biennial exhibitions. In 2020, she was awarded a 6-month fellowship at e-flux journal where she developed the project “E-flux’s multi-futures: A timeline” (2022). Recent publications include Magnifying the Margins: Art Magazines in the Contemporary Art System (2020), and Contemporary Art Magazines: The Archive in the Archive (2019). She is an Editorial Research Assistant for ARTMargins Online and editor of OBOE Journal: On Biennials and Other Exhibitions.  

Ágnes Anna Sebestyén 
Curator, Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Monument Protection Documentation Center, Budapest 

Ágnes Anna Sebestyén is an art historian, having graduated with honors with a Master’s degree from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest in 2013. Since fall 2019, she has been a doctoral student in Design Culture Studies at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest. She is also a curator of collections at the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Monument Protection Documentation Center. She has curatorial experience in 20th century architectural history and research expertise in the history of modern architecture and architectural photography with a special focus on interwar Hungary. Her current research addresses the international transfer of modern architecture in the printed media and professional networks. She has published several essays in Hungarian and English, and lectured at international conferences on related topics. 

Zorana Simić 
Research assistant, Institute for Literature and Arts, Belgrade 

Zorana Simić is a research assistant at the Institute for Literature and Arts in Belgrade (Department: Periodicals in the History of Serbian Literature and Culture), as well as a current student of a study program Master academic studies of Political science and Gender studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. She is also a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, where she obtained her BA and MA degree at the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, in 2015 and 2016, respectively. She is working on her doctoral thesis entitled Women Editors in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia: Biographical, Literary-Historical, and Typological Aspects. 

Evanghelia Stead  
Professor of Comparative Literature and Print Culture, UVSQ Paris-Saclay, Paris 

Evanghelia Stead is Professor of Comparative Literature and Print Culture at UVSQ Paris-Saclay, former fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France (2016–21), a linguist and literary translator. She has published extensively on fin-de-siècle culture, Greek and Latin myths in modern literature, literature and iconography, books as cultural objects, periodicals, and ‘the Thousand and Second Night’. She has authored Sisyphe heureux. Les Revues littéraires et artistiques: approches et figures (2020), guest-edited two JEPS issues (2016 and 2019), and co-edited with Hélène Védrine, L’Europe des revues: estampes, photographies, illustrations (2008, repr. 2011) and L’Europe des revues II: Réseaux et circulations des modèles (2018). She acts as Academic Networking Officer at the ESPRit Committee. 

Žarka Svirčev 
Research associate, Institute for Literature and Arts, Belgrade 

Žarka Svirčev is a Research Associate at the Institute for Literature and Arts in Belgrade (Department: Periodicals in the History of Serbian Literature and Culture). Her fields of interest encompass avant-garde studies, periodical studies, feminist theory, and criticism. She published the books (in Serbian) Ah, that identity! Deconstruction of Gender Stereotypes in the Work of Dubravka Ugrešić (2010), Vinaver’s Literary Republic (2017), Portrait of the Predecessor: Draga Dejanović (2018) and Avant-Garde Women. Essays on Serbian (Female) Avant-Garde Literature (2018). She is a co-editor of the volume Women’s Movement (1920–1938): A collection of works (2021). 

Zoltán Szénási
Research fellow, Institute for Literary Studies, Research Center for Humanities, Budapest

Zoltán Szénási is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Literary Studies, Research Center for Humanities, (Budapest). In addition, He is the editor of Irodalomtörténeti Közlemények [’Publications on Literary History’] (Budapest) and the literary review Új Forrás [‘New Source’] (Tatabánya). Szénási’s main field of research is twentieth-century Hungarian literature, with special focus on the analysis of the relationship between modern literature and religious tradition, as well as the conservative literary criticism. From 2021 He is the principal investigator in the project of Critical Edition of the Poems and Literary Translations of Mihály Babits supported by National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH). My research in the Institute for Literary Studies focuses on the critical edition of the poems of Mihály Babits (1883–1941). Babits was an important author of Hungarian literary modernity during the first part of the twentieth century. He left behind a significant oeuvre, the scientific text edition of which requires thorough theoretical and practical background knowledge. Textology and philology form the theoretical basis of my research, but because the poems were first published in contemporary journals and newspapers, background information on periodicals has also been essential during the collection and publication of the different text variants. In addition, the interdisciplinary openness of Periodical Studies has made it possible to productively utilize the results of other branches of textology during the research. Recent Publications: Szénási, Zoltán: »A poetic journey through Inferno and Purgatorio: Structural parallels of Mihály Babits’s volume of poetry. Nyugtalanság völgye and Dante’s Divine Comedy«, in: Éva, Vígh and Eszter, Draskóczy (eds.), Quella terra che ’l Danubio riga: Dante in Ungheria, Aracne, 2021, 163–176; Szénási, Zoltán: »Mire jó a genetikus kritika? [’What is genetic critique for?’]«, Helikon Irodalomtudományi Szemle, vol. 67, no. 1, 2021, pp. 153–175; Szénási, Zoltán: »Denominational Reception of Literary Modernity in Hungary Before 1920«, Hungarian Cultural Studies: E-journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association, vol. 11, 2018, pp. 23–31.

Levente T. Szabó 
Associate professor, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca – Senior researcher, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 

Levente T. Szabó (PhD habil.) is an Associate Professor of Hungarian and Comparative Literature at Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania) and senior researcher at The Political Economy of Literature Lendület-Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. Author of several successful books and articles on Hungarian literary modernization and nation-building. His research interests lie in the area of nineteenth-century Eastern European literary modernism, the periodical press, and theatrical modernization. He is currently working on a monograph on the transnational history of the first international journal of comparative literary studies. 

Zsuzsa Török
Senior research fellow, Institute for Literary Studies, Research Center for Humanities, Budapest

Zsuzsa Török is a senior research fellow at the Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute for Literary Studies (Eötvös Loránd Research Network), Budapest. She works in the fields of 19th-century Hungarian literary history, print and manuscript culture, and women’s writing. She is the author of Petelei István és az irodalom sajtóközege: Média- és társadalomtörténeti elemzés [István Petelei and the Periodical Context of Literature: A Media and Social Historical Analysis] (Budapest: Ráció, 2011). She has also edited several volumes and has published widely on nineteenth-century Hungarian women’s literature. Her recently published articles in English include: ‘Mother of Three and Widow of the Nation: Mrs Vachott as Protégé-Editor’, Journal of European Periodical Studies 6, no. 1 (2021): 115–125; ‘Mrs Vachott’s Haunting Memories: Walter Scott and the Female Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Hungary’, Women’s Writing 28, no. 4 (2021): 472–489.

Christophe Verbruggen  
Director, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Ghent 

Prof. Dr. Christophe Verbruggen is director of the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities and Associate Professor at the research unit Social History since 1750. He is also a member of the Institute of Public History and the Centre for the History of Science at Ghent University. Christophe Verbruggen directs DARIAH-VL, the Flemish contribution to the European research infrastructure DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities). He is specialized in the social history of intellectuals and cultural mobility in the 19th and 20th century. Other research interests and publications include history of science and technology, environmental history and the use of prosopography and network analysis in historical research.  

Hubert van den Berg 
Professor, Department of Dutch Studies, Palacký University, Olomouc 

Hubert van den Berg is Professor in Literary Studies in the Department of Dutch Studies of the Palacký University in Olomouc (CZ), co-editor of Avant-Garde Critical Studies (Brill/Rodopi), member of the editorial board of European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (De Gruyter) and member of the scientific board of the Journal of Avant-Garde Studies (Brill). Some book publications: Metzler Avantgarde Lexikon (ed. with W. Fähnders 2009), A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900–1925 (ed. with I. Hautamäki et al. 2012), Transnationality, Internationalism and Nationhood. European Avant-Garde in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (ed. with L. Głuchowska 2013), Dada. Een geschiedenis (2016). 

Ekaterina Vasileva 
PhD student, University of Erfurt, Erfurt 

I received my BA in international journalism from Moscow State University of International Relations and my double MA in history of the Arab world from University of Erfurt and in sociology of Arab world from Université de Saint-Joseph in Lebanon. I specialize in media history, in particular, researching the media that played a role in international/transnational relations. My main research interests include geographically the history of the Arab world and Soviet history. I am interested in ideas and imagery that were used in the intellectual exchange between the so-called “Second” and “Third” worlds. My upcoming PhD thesis “Studying Publitsistika: Soviet Media Theory Through the Arab Lens'' is about journalists studying and working in both geopolitical spheres, who defied the familiar stereotypes about Arab or Soviet media spheres, building professional relations on the basis of similar ideas and mutual understanding of a role of journalists as cultural mediators. I try to show how these exchanges were different from similar exchanges in the West, happening in a perceived “periphery” of the world.

Barbara Winckler 
Senior lecturer, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster 

Barbara Winckler is a senior lecturer of modern Arabic literature and culture at the University of Münster. Having worked for long on contemporary Arabic fiction, she is currently preparing a study on Arabic journals of the nahḍa period (late 19th/early 20th cent.) and their contribution to the emerging debate culture of the time. Her recent publications in the field of periodical research include “ʻNew Mediaʼ and the Transformation of the Public Sphere in the nahḍa Period and Today” (2018), “Embarking upon a New Era through an Old Genre: Biographical Essays in Journals of the Nahḍah Period” (2019), “Seriality, Journal-Specific Communication and Archival Practices in Two Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Arabic Periodicals: How Writing and Publishing Strategies Potentially Affect Reading Practices” (2022) and “‘Translating’ Orality and Sociability into Print: Strategies for Building a Community of Shared Values in a 1920s Beirut-Based Women’s Magazine” (2022). She co-edited a special issue of Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (Brill) on “Media Transitions and Cultural Debates in Arab Societies” (2022) and authored and edited several books, among them Arabic Literature – Postmodern Perspectives (2010), Thinking through Ruins (2022) and The Humanities in the 21st Century: Perspectives from the Arab World and Germany (2022; English/Arabic).