Arthur Groos is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University, and Professor of German Studies, Medieval Studies, and Music.

Professor Dr. Hans-Jochen Schiewer holds the chair for Germanic Philology, Older German Literature and Language at the University of Freiburg.

Prof. Dr. Markus Stock is an Associate Professor of German and Medieval Studies and the Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto. He held invited visiting professorships at the University of Freiburg and Havard University. His research interests include high medieval German epic, romance, and Minnesang, historical narratology, the history of pain as well as medieval and early modern texts on Alexander the Great. He is the principal investigator of a multi-year research project, Spatial Practices in German literature, 1150-1300, funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Arthur Groos is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University, and Professor of German Studies, Medieval Studies, and Music.

Dr Volker Mertens is a professor for older German literature and language at the FU Berlin.

Professor Dr. Hans-Jochen Schiewer holds the chair for Germanic Philology, Older German Literature and Language at the University of Freiburg.