Biographical Note
Vladimir Biti is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, currently Distinguished Chair Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University. His most recent monograph is
Attached to Dispossession, (Brill, 2018). Upcoming:
Post-imperial Literature:Translatio imperii
in Kafka and Coetzee.
Joep Leerssen is Professor of Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam and holds a part-time research professorship at the University of Maastricht. He is the editor of the
Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe(Amsterdam UP, 2018). His most recent books are
Comparative Literature in Britain: National Identities, Transnational Dynamics, 1800â2000 (Legenda 2019) and
Parnell and his Times (ed.; Cambridge UP, 2020).