Karolina Hicke researches 20th- and 21st-century German literature and culture, with an emphasis on migration, minority discourses, memory, and gender. In addition to courses in German language and culture, she teaches classes on refugees, the Holocaust, environmentalism, and fairy tales. Her current book project examines post-Soviet German Jewish literature, focusing on how migration shapes its themes and forms. She explores how authors engage with public and media debates and extend their work into nonfiction across genres—including writing tandems, edited volumes, and activist projects.

Sunka Simon is the author of German Crime Dramas from Network Television to Netflix (2023) and Mail-Orders: The Fiction of Letters in Postmodern Culture (2002), co-editor of Globally Networked Teaching in the Humanities (2015) and numerous articles on German literature, film, television, and popular music.

Hansjakob Werlen's research interests are late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German literature and contemporary literature of German speaking countries, with a special focus on Switzerland. A member of the Tri-college Food Studies group, he also teaches courses on issues of taste and aesthetics.