— Michael Augustin is a poet and editor at Radio Bremen. In 2003 he was Max Kade Writer-in-Residence at Dickinson College where he is currently teaching as a visiting professor.

— Marie Cornelia is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University Camden. She has published on the masque in Jacobean drama as well as on Shakespeare, Marston, Chaucer, Pope and Hopkins. Her most recent article was on Bernhard Schlink's The Reader

— Christine Cosentino is Professor of German at Rutgers University in Camden

— Wolfgang Ertl is Professor of German at the University of Iowa

— Helga Halbfass is Visiting Professor of German at St. Joseph's University

— Barbara Mabee is Professor of German at Oakland University in Rochester

— Rainhard Zachau is Professor of German at the University of the South in Sewanee