William Collins Donahue (Prof. Dr.) teaches courses in the humanities, on German literature and film, and on European studies at University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. Georg Mein (Prof. Dr.) teaches in the fields of contemporary German literary studies, cultural and media studies at Université du Luxembourg. Rolf Parr (Prof. Dr.), born in 1956, is a professor of German Literature and Media Studies at Universität Duisburg-Essen. He is a member of the extended coordination circle of the Competence Field Metropolitan Research in the University Alliance Ruhr (KoMet). His research areas include literature, media and cultural theory/history of the 18th to 21st centuries, discourse theory and research on normalism, collective symbols, literature/media relations, television, medial representations of work, urban and metropolitan research.