Humanities

Patrick Ebewo is Professor at the Faculty of the Arts of the Tshwane University of Technology in South Africa. His field of expertise is dramatic arts and theatre, with a focus on African drama and theatre, cultural studies, dramatic literature and criticism, theatre for development, industrial theatre and popular theatre. more

Alexander C.T. Geppert holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor of History and European Studies and Global Network Associate Professor at NYU New York and NYU Shanghai. A historian of 19th- and 20th- century western Europe, his work focuses on the nexus of spatiality, knowledge and transcendence in varying configurations. more

Angela Kallhoff is Professor of Ethics at the University of Vienna and Head of the research platform Nano-Norms-Nature. Her research areas are ethics, political philosophy and applied ethics. more

Brian Kane is Professor at the Department of Music at Yale University. His scholarly work is interdisciplinary, located in the intersection of music theory, composition, and philosophy. more

Susanne Lange is a freelance translator of literary texts into German. She mainly translates from Spanish and also from English. She translated texts of Lorca, Rulfo, Cervantes and Luis Cernuda, among others, and received several awards for her translations. more

Mark Edward Lewis is Professor of History and Religious Studies at the Standford University. Mark Edward Lewis's research deals with many aspects of Chinese civilization and with the problem of empire as a political and social form. more

Martin Pfeiffer is Assistant Professor at the Department of German Linguistics at the University of Freiburg. His research interests are pragmatics, syntax, prosody, discourse particles, interactional linguistics, conversation analysis, multimodal communication, sociolinguistics, and first language acquisition. more

Peter Pormann is Professor of Classics & Graeco-Arabic Studies at the University of Manchester. Peter E Pormann is primarily concerned with the transmission of the Greek medical and scientific heritage into the Islamic world and the use of information technologies to facilitate its study. more

James Read is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. His research concerns the foundations of spacetime theories, symmetries, and dualities. more

Robert St. Martin Westley is LOCHEF Professor of Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility at Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. His research and teaching interests are in the fields of critical race theory, constitutional law, philosophy of law, law and literature, and the legal profession. more