Margaret Atwood's Aesthetics: The Artpolitical

Dunja M. Mohr, University of Erfurt, Germany, is Vice President of the Margaret Atwood Society and the Society’s European Representative. She acts as Head of the Women, Gender, and Diversity Studies Section of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries and serves on the Advisory Boards of Utopian Studies and Margaret Atwood Studies. She is the author of the award-winning monograph Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias and has co-edited several volumes, among them Embracing the Other: Addressing Xenophobia in the New Literatures in English, "9/11 as Catalyst - American and Cultural Responses" (special issue of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (with Sylvia Mayer)), and Radical Planes? 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity (with Birgit Däwes).

Kirsten Sandrock holds the Chair of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany. She is the author of Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603–1707 (2021) and Gender and Region: Maritime Fiction in English by Canadian Women, 1976–2005 (2009) as well as of numerous articles on Shakespeare and early modern literature, gender studies, Canadian literature, travel writing, Scottish studies, and colonial and postcolonial studies. In 2005, she received the Government of Canada Award. She is currently Vice President of the German Shakespeare Association and co-edited, with Lukas Lammers, the Shakespeare Seminar Online from 2016 to 2023.