Anne I. Bertram is a doctoral researcher in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and part of the DFG research training group of the Global Sentimentality Project.

Matthias Widmann is studying at Hochschule für Musik und Theater München to become a high school teacher, majoring in both music and choral conducting with an artistic focus.

Elena Bös is a doctoral researcher in contemporary history at LMU Müchen and a research assistant at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte München.

Katja Kanzler is professor of American literature at Universität Leipzig. She has published extensively on the poetics and politics of US popular culture, from the 19th-century freak show to contemporary television.

Felicia Krammling is a doctoral candidate in Japanese studies. She studied Japanese studies and theater studies at Ludwig Maximilian Universität München.

Isabell Madeline Krauß studies English, German and German as a secondary language as part of a teacher training degree at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. There, she also works as a student assistant at the chair of English Linguistics.

Jana Luckhardt is a master’s student in American studies at Universität Leipzig and holds a Bachelor's degree in American, British and Canadian Studies from Universität Marburg.

Melinda Käferstein is a masters student at the London School of Economics and Political Science and holds a BA in social sciences from Humboldt Universität Berlin.

Maximilian Pott is a research associate in North American and public history at Universität Hamburg. He holds a BA in international relations and history from Universität Erfurt and a MA in American studies from Universität Leipzig.

Lys Malin Thomsen is working on her master’s thesis in film studies at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. She studied theater and media, as well as English language and literature, at the Universität Bayreuth.