Lexicon of Global Melodrama (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783837659733)

Heike Paul (Prof. Dr.) is chair of American studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universit舩 Erlangen-N?nberg and director of the Bavarian American Academy in Munich. She is project leader of the Global Sentimentality Project and spokesperson of the research training group on ｻThe Sentimentalｫ at FAU. In 2018, she received the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation.
Sarah Marak is a doctoral research in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander Universit舩 Erlangen-N?nberg.
Katharina Gerund (Dr. phil.) teaches American studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universit舩 Erlangen-N?nberg. Her research interests include transatlantic cultural mobility, popular culture as well as gender and critical race studies. Current projects focus on the U.S. re-education policies of the postwar years and the figure of the military spouse in the cultural imaginary of the U.S..
Marius Henderson (M.A.) is a postdoctoral researcher in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universit舩 Erlangen-N?nberg. His research interests include critical theory (especially affect and Afro-diasporic theory), North American poetry, and gender studies. His current research project investigates the relation between dynamics of abstraction and abjection in the context of North American modernisms.