Ina Batzke is a researcher and lecturer in American Studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany. She has published a monograph on life narratives of undocumented migrants and co-edited a special issue on Storied Citizenship. Her current research project concerns the productivity of nature writing as a genre for the Anthropocene.

Lea Espinoza Garrido is a researcher and lecturer in American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. She has published on racialized and gendered representations in contemporary American and European popular culture and has co-edited a special issue on Migrant States of Exception.

Linda M. Hess is a senior lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of American Studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany. She is the author of Queer Aging in North American Fiction (2019). Her current research focuses on ideas of grievability, preservation, and loss in ecocriticism.