Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice

About

Nicole Maruo-Schröder is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Koblenz Germany. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century American literature material (food) culture travel writing intersectionality and visual culture. Publications include co-edited collections on Literature and Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America (2014) Space Place and Narrative (2016) and Issues in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Fiction (2018) as well as a monograph on Spatial Concepts in Contemporary American Literature (2006). A current book project focuses on literature and consumption.Sarah Schäfer-Althaus is Lecturer in Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Koblenz Germany. Her research centers on women gender sexuality studies and medical humanities. She is the author of The Gendered Body: Female Sanctity Gender Hybridity and the Body in Womens Hagiography (2016) and co-editor of Transient Bodies in Anglophone Literature and Culture (2020) and Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature History and Culture (2023). Uta Schaffers is Professor of German Literature and Didactics at the University of Koblenz Germany. Her main research areas include travel writing (various articles and the co-edited volume (Off) the Beaten Track? Normierungen und Kanonisierungen des Reisens; 2018) with special focus on Japan (Konstruktionen der Fremde. Erfahren verschriftlicht und erlesen am Beispiel Japan; 2006) and the Swiss travel writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach (see the editions of Schwarzenbachs works) traveling bodies and East-Asia in literature as well as economics and literature.