Hannah Armour is a PhD candidate at the University of Stuttgart. She holds a Masters of Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA from Royal Holloway, University of London. Part of the LitAttention project, her thesis looks at the correlation between attention and the evolution of short fiction forms, particularly the tale, during the 19th century. She is a member of EFACIS.

Sibylle Baumbach is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Literatures and Cultures at the University of Stuttgart. Trained at the universities of Heidelberg and Cambridge, she received her MA from UC Santa Barbara in 2002, and her PhD from LMU Munich in 2006, and completed her Habilitation at the University of Gießen in 2013. Her previous academic appointments include positions at the universities of Innsbruck, Mainz, Giessen, and Warwick, and a Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Humboldt Foundation at Stanford University. Her research focuses on cognitive literary studies, early modern literature (especially Shakespeare), the aesthetics of fascination, and literary attention. She is the PI of the project LitAttention (ERC Advanced Grant 101141722, 2024–2029), which explores aspects of attention and attention politics in short fiction. Her publications include monographs on Literature and Fascination (2015) and Shakespeare and the Art of Physiognomy (2008), as well as several co-edited essay collections and special issues on topics such as temporalities in/of crises, attention and mind-wandering, Brexit and academia, Victorian surfaces, new approaches to the 21st-century novel, travelling concepts, and literature and values. Since 2023, Baumbach has served as President of the German Shakespeare Society and is co-editor of the Journal of Literary Theory and Antike and Abendland.