Editorial: On the Cultural Dimensions of Surveillance

Wibke Schniedermann is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Teaching Centre Coordinator at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus Liebig University Giessen. Her current research investigates the representation of homelessness in American literature and culture. She completed her PhD on symbolic violence in Henry James’s novels with Frankfurt University. She is co-editor of Class Divisions in Serial Television (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and has published on homelessness in literature, film, and television, on Henry James, the American Western, and the contemporary American novel.

Wolfgang Hallet is Professor of Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Literature and Culture at Justus Liebig University Giessen. He was a founding member of the Executive Board of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) and Head of its Teaching Centre until 2017. He has published a number of monographs (including a book on Paul Auster) and co-edited a large number of handbooks and volumes and the book series Concepts for the Study of Culture. He has researched and published widely on the contemporary novel, the multimodal novel, on the cultural contextualization of literature, and on genre.