Alexander von Humboldt

Beate I. Allert is professor of German, comparative literature, and film studies, and director of comparative literature at Purdue University. She is the author or editor of five books, and her research focuses on the Enlightenment, Weimar Classicism, Romanticism, visuality, text-image debates, environmentalism, temporality, and color. She served as vice president and president of the International Herder Society. Christopher R. Clason is professor emeritus of German at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He has authored numerous articles on Romantic and medieval subjects, and is the editor of E.T.A. Hoffmann: Transgressive Romanticism. He is a past president of the International Conference on Romanticism and the International Tristan Society. Niall A. Peach is assistant professor of Spanish at Coe College. His research encompasses the environmental humanities, and the racial, transatlantic, and neo-imperial politics of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries in Latin America. He is a past recipient of the Bilsland Fellowship for his research on race and gardens. Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo is assistant professor of English at Rhode Island College. He is the author of Children of Globalization: Diasporic Coming-of-Age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States. He has been a Lynn and Fulbright fellow.