Anna Klambauer is a lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Graz. Currently her research is dedicated to the exploration of madness in Anglophone fiction. She has published and edited many articles on the subject of madness, including Muses, Mystics, Madness: The Diagnosis and Celebration of Mental Illness (Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2016). Doreen Bauschke earned a PhD in American literature in 2013 with the dissertation titled Quilt(ed) Texts: The Patchwork Quilt in Contemporary North American Novels at the Friedrich Schiller Universität in Jena, Germany, where she has taught on intertextuality and hypertextuality. She is currently pursuing a degree in education.