Heike Paul (Prof. Dr.) teaches American Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Sarah Marak (M.A.) is a doctoral researcher in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her research interests include popular culture, discourses on terrorism, US-American myths and ecocriticism. Her dissertation project focuses on representations of radical environmental activism in US literature and culture. Katharina Gerund (Dr. phil.) is coordinator of the interdisciplinary doctoral program »Presence and Tacit Knowledge« at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Marius Henderson (M.A.) is a postdoctoral researcher in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research interests include critical theory (especially affect and Afro-diasporic theory), North American poetry, and gender studies. His current research project investigates the relation between dynamics of abstraction and abjection in the context of North American modernisms.