University of Trier, GermanyRalf Hertel is Professor of English Literature at the University of Trier, Germany. He has published in the field of Anglo-Asian literary encounters, early modern studies as well as contemporary literature. Among his most recent book publications are English Poetry in Context: From the 16th to the 21st Century (with Peter H hn; 2021), Empowering Contemporary Fiction in English: The Impact of Empowerment in Literary Studies (ed. with Eva-Maria Windberger; 2021), Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe: Telling Failures (ed. with Michael Keevak; 2017) and Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play: Performing National Identity (2014). He was a guest professor at the Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2015.Kirsten Sandrock teaches at the department of British Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Goettingen. She is currently guest professor of English Literature at Tuebingen University and previously taught at the Universities of Leipzig, Vienna, and Wuppertal. Her research ranges from the early modern literature and culture to contemporary Anglophone studies, and she has published widely on intercultural encounters, colonial and postcolonial studies, Shakespeare, travel writing, gender, and genre studies. She is the author of Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707 (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), co-editor of Locating Italy: East and West in British-Italian Transactions (2013) and of the Shakespeare Seminar Online.