**About the Editors**

#### **Daniel Stein**

Daniel Stein is Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Siegen. He has authored two monographs—*Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz* (University of Michigan Press, 2012) and *Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre* (Ohio State University Press, 2021)—and co-edited volumes on topics ranging from comics and videogames to diasporic narratives and discourses of disease and displacement. He is an editor of *Anglia: Journal of English Philology* and the *Anglia Book Series*, PI of the DFG-funded project "Serial Circulation: The German-American City Mystery Novel and the Beginnings of Transatlantic Modernity (1850–1855)" (since 2022) and PI in the Collaborative Research Center/SFB 1472 "Transformations of the Popular" (since 2021). He has recently co-edited a Special Issue of the journal *Arts* (New Perspectives on Pop Culture, 2023) and is currently finishing a monograph entitled *Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots: Black History in Contemporary Graphic Narrative*.

#### **Niels Werber**

Professor Niels Werber (\*1965) is chair of Modern German Literature at the University of Siegen (since 2009) and was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities from 2016 to 2021. He is the speaker of the Collaborative Research Center/SFB 1472 "Transformations of the Popular" (since 2021) and was Fellow of the HKFZ of the University of Trier as well as of the Cluster of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Integration" of the University of Konstanz. Niels Werber is editor of the journal *LiLi* (Springer Sciences/Metzler) and the book series *LiLi* (Springer Sciences). His research interests include the following: the popular, geopolitics of literature, social insects, and self-descriptions of society.
