About the Author

The Editors: Patrick Studer is Embassy of Switzerland Lecturer in Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. He completed his M.A. and Ph.D. in English linguistics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His research focuses on media and intercultural studies.
Sabine Egger is a Lecturer in German Studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. Currently completing her doctorate at the Humboldt-University of Berlin about images of the 'Other' in the poetry of Johannes Bobrowski, she has published articles on questions of collective identity in 20th-century German literature and culture, the teaching and learning of literature and intercultural awareness.