Ulrike Wagner is the director of the German Studies Program at Bard College Berlin. She received her Ph.D. in German and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and an M.A. in North American Studies and German Literature from the Free University of Berlin. At Bard College Berlin she has developed a variety of courses on European and American Romanticism, Germany’s Jewish Enlightenment, the literature and culture of the Weimar period in Berlin, and contemporary debates in the German public sphere.

In collaboration with Laura Scuriatti and colleagues from CEU and BRAC University, Ulrike has taught an OSUN network course on Feminism and Community. Her current research interests concern the transnational history and practices of philology; relations between German Romanticism and American Transcendentalism in the context of religious debates, historicism, classicism, aesthetics, and the rise of the liberal arts model of education; German-Jewish women writers; and feminist theory and practice. You can reach her at u.wagner@berlin.bard.edu

Laura Scuriatti is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Bard College Berlin. Her research focuses on modernist literature, with a special interest in questions of gender and aesthetics. She is a member of the international research network Writing1900. She is the author of Mina Loy’s Critical Modernism (2019), the editor of Groups, Coteries, Circles, and Guilds: Modernist Aesthetics and the Utopian Lure of Community (2019), and the co-editor of The Exhibit in the Text: the Museological Practices of Literature (2008). She has published articles on Mina Loy, H.G. Wells, Mario Praz, Carl Van Vechten, modernist aesthetics, life writing, feminism, and film. You can contact her at l.scuriatti@berlin.bard.edu

Seuty Sabur is currently an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brac University in Bangladesh. She obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology from the National University of Singapore, and her MA in Cultural Dynamics from Hiroshima University, Japan. Her core research interest has been the Metropolitan Middle Class of Bangladesh – their lifestyle, changing gender roles, and their social and transnational networks. She has been writing on the Shahbag Uprising, the gendered construction of the nation, and the culpability of left and liberal forces.

Her research has been published in reputed journals such as Fieldshights by the Society for Cultural Anthropology, Journal of South Asian Development, South Asia Chronicles, and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. She is one of the recipients of the Global Challenges Research Fund Project awarded by the Academy of Medical Sciences, UK. You can contact her at seuty@bracu.ac.bd