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Martina Meidl
Martina Meidl is lecturer of Literature at the Department of Romance Studies of the University of Klagenfurt. She completed a PhD in Romance Studies at the University of Vienna with a thesis on the poetry of Octavio Paz, published in 2015 (Poesía, pensamiento y percepción. Una lectura de Arbol adentro de Octavio Paz). Her post-doctoral dissertation, discussed in 2020, concerns literature on the Great War (La poesia come mezzo di rappresentazione dell’esperienza di guerra. Poesia di poeti combattenti e veterani francesi della Grande Guerra). She conducts research mainly in the following areas: fantasy fiction, war literature and modern and contemporary poetry.

Virginie Leclerc
Virginie Leclerc is a Senior Lecturer (since 2013), initially at the University of Salzburg and then (since 2018) at the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Klagenfurt. She read German studies in Lille and Didactics in French and German languages in Göttingen. She is currently working on a PhD on the grotesque in 19th century literature. She is interested in language teaching and comparative literature.