Moritz Ingwersen holds a joint Ph.D. in Cultural Studies and English from Trent University, Canada, and the University of Cologne, Germany. His dissertation was awarded with the Governor General's Gold Medal and examines resonances between the humanities and the natural sciences through the novels of the American writer Neal Stephenson. He has held teaching positions at the Cultural Studies Department at Trent University, the Institute for American Literature and Culture at the University of Cologne, and the Department of Design and Media Theory at the University of Arts Bremen. He is currently working on a post-doctoral research project on wind as energy in American literature and culture. He has a monograph entitled All Things Fusible: Neal Stephenson's Science Fiction as Science Studies cuttently under review with Liverpool University Press for their Science Fiction Texts and Studies Series. His latest article, "Reclaiming Fossil Ghosts: Indigenous Resistance to Resource Extraction in Works by Warren Cariou, Cherie Dimaline, and Nathan Adler" was just published (August 2020) in the Special Issue of Canadian Literature: "Decolonial (Re)Visions of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror." 

Marie Klatt enseigne la linguistique francophone au Département d'Etudes Romanes de l'Université de Fribourg. Grâce au réseau EUCOR, elle fait aussi partie de l'Ecole de Linguistique Hermann Paul à l'Université de Bâle. Sa thèse de Master s'intitule « Approche phenoménologique de la confiance (inter) corporelle dans l'acrobatie circassienne: Le cas d'un couple d'acrobates de l'Ecole nationale de cirque de Montréal, pratiquant le main à main ». 

Dr. Geneviève Susemihl is researcher and fellow at the English Seminar at the Christian- Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany. She studied English and American Studies, Sociology and Educational Sciences at the University of Rostock in Germany, at Connecticut College and Long Island University in the US. She was stand-in professor of Cultural and Media Studies at the University of Kiel, Assistant Professor at the University of Rostock, Adjunct Professor at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and the University of Greifswald, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Queen's Centre for International Relations at Queen’s University, Kingston, program manager and senior research associate at the Centre for Security, Armed Forces and Society (CSAFS) at the Royal Military College of Canada, and office manager of the Association of Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (GKS). Her main areas of research are World Heritage Studies, Indigenous Studies, People’s Migration and Integration, Jewish Diaspora of North America, Popular and Visual Culture, Media and Communication. She has published on Jewish immigration to North America ("…and it became my home:" Die Assimilation und Integration der deutschjüdischen Hitlerflüchtlinge in New York und Toronto (Lit Verlag, 2004), on the construction of the American Indian in literature and culture, as well as on cultural heritage, migration, and storytelling.

Dr Renae Watchman is the Co-Director of the Office of Academic Indigenization and an Associate Professor in English and Indigenous Studies at Mount Royal University. Along with Hartmut Lutz and Florentine Strzelczyk, she co-edited Indianthusiam: Indigenous Responses (June 2019, Wilfrid Laurier University Press.) She also co-authored, with Dr. Robert Alexander Innes, the chapter "Transforming Toxic Indigenous Masculinity: A Critical Indigenous Masculinities & Indigenous Film Studies Approach to Drunktown's Finest," published in Visions of the Heart: Issues Involving Aboriginal Peoples in Canada 5th Edition, edited by David Long and Gina Starblanket (Oxford University Press, March 2020.) She is currently working on a book manuscript that looks at the displacement of Indigenous stories and their connection to land, landscape and monoliths in visual media, titled: Tsé Bitʼaʼí. Mars, Myth, & Monolith: Keyah & Indigenous Stories Dislocated in Visual Media. When she is not busy working, she enjoys spending time with family and friends. Dr. Watchman's favourite pastimes are hiking, hanging out in coffee shops, watching movies, and traveling.