Editorial Team

Julia Pröll (University of Innsbruck)

Julia Pröll is an Associate Professor of French Literature and Cultural Studies at the Institute of Romance Studies at the University of Innsbruck. She has been a Humboldt-Fellow at Saarland University and she is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Research Center Medical Humanities. Her main research interests in the field of the Medical Humanities currently concern French-speaking physician-writers as well as the depiction of illness and medicine in the texts of French-speaking migration authors, especially from Asia.

Contact:
Julia Pröll
Institute of Romance Studies, University of Innsbruck
julia.proell(at)uibk.ac.at


Maria Heidegger (University of Innsbruck)

Maria Heidegger is a Senior Scientist at the Department of History and European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck and a member of the Advisory Board of the Research Center Medical Humanities. She conducts research in the fields of psychiatric history, medicine, body and pain history, sensory and emotional history, and – with a view to medicine and beyond disciplinary boundaries – music, sounds, and religion.

Contact:
Maria Heidegger
Department of History and European Ethnology, University of Innsbruck
Maria.Heidegger(at)uibk.ac.at


Katharina Fürholzer (University of Koblenz)

Katharina Fürholzer is a Junior Professor of Interdisciplinarity Studies at the Institute of German Languages and Literatures at the University of Koblenz. Previously, she worked as a research associate in the fields of the History, Theory, and Ethics of Medicine (Ulm) and Aging Studies (Rostock) and was a postdoctoral visiting scholar in the Program of Comparative Literature & Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). Her research focuses include literature and speechlessness, literary Aging Studies, illness narratives, and literary approaches to aging, dying, and death.

Contact:
Katharina Fürholzer
Institute for German Languages and Literatures, University of Koblenz
fuerholzer(at)uni-koblenz.de