Julia Andres completed her PhD in American Studies at Bielefeld University. Her PhD thesis Cuéntame algo – Narrating Chicana Lives beyond the Borderlands was published in Germany and the US with Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier/Bilingual Press in 2015. She has been a member of faculty at Bielefeld University since 2007 and is a tenured lecturer there at the chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies. Her main research interests are Chicana Studies, Canadian Literatures, Porn Studies and Supernatural Fictions.
Brian Rozema is a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan and currently a lecturer for North American Language, Literature and Culture at Bielefeld University. He is an editor for fiar - forum for inter-american research, the journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (www.interamerica.de). He also co-edited Key Tropes in Inter-American Studies (2015) and has published texts in the journal 10plus1 | Living Linguistics (2016) and The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies (2017). His research interests include Inter-American Studies, Creolistics, language attitudes and ideologies, as well as cultural production with a focus on the representation of marginalized languages in media from the Americas and beyond.
Anne Schröder is Professor of English Linguistics at Bielefeld University, Germany. She studied English and French at the universities of Caen, France, Bristol, UK and Freiburg i. Br., Germany, where she received her PhD in English Linguistics. She previously worked at Martin Luther University Halle and at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. Her publications include Status, Functions, and Prospects of Pidgin English. An Empirical Approach to Language Dynamics in Cameroon (2003), On the Productivity of Verbal Prefixation in English (2011), the edition of several volumes and the publication of various articles on similar topics. More recently, she has also researched and published on the dynamics of English in Namibia and the use of language variation in film and literature.
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