is Professor for Nordic Philology at the Scandinavian Studies Department of the University of Basel and at the German Department of the University of Zurich. His main research interests are in Scandinavian medieval and early modern literatures and in Icelandic literature.

is a post-doctoral research fellow on the project «Mediality: Historical Perspectives» at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her main research interests are in medieval Scandinavian literature and culture, and media studies.

M. A., studierte Populäre Kulturen sowie deutsche Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Zürich.