Do the Americas Have a Common Literary History?

Biographical notes

Barbara Buchenau (Volume editor) Annette Paatz (Volume editor)

The Editors: Annette Paatz specialized in Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Göttingen. Paatz’s interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American and Spanish prose narratives, the processes of cultural transfer between France and Latin America, comparative cultural and media history, and gender studies. Barbara Buchenau specialized in American literature and culture at the University of Göttingen. Buchenau has published on nineteenth-century historical fiction in the Americas and is co-editor, with Marietta Messmer, of Intercultural Negotiations in the Americas and Beyond. Her research interests include various processes of transatlantic cultural transfer and transformation, the literary marketplace in North America, and the emergence of Canadian literature as a cultural institution.