Ports of Call Central European and North American Culture/s in Motion

The Editors: Susan Ingram has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta and is currently working on a postdoctoral project in the History Department at the University of Victoria on the technologies of self-representation. In addition to women’s writing and auto/biography, she has also published on topics in Translation Studies.
Markus Reisenleitner has a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna and joined the Department of Cultural Studies at the Lingnan University Hong-Kong in the capacity of Associate Professor in 2001. Areas of interest include cultural history and cultural studies (urban studies, theories of space, place and identity, popular culture in public entertainment and spectacle, popular literature and themed environments).
Cornelia Szabó-Knotik has a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Vienna and is Associate Professor at the Institute of Analysis, Theory and History of Music at the University of Music in Vienna. Interested in the aesthetic content as well as the social and cultural importance of music, her main subjects are the history of music-life, the many phenomena of reception, including the importance of new media (film) for the way the musical heritage is confronted.