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Anna Baccanti studied comparative literature and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and is affiliated with the International Doctoral Program MIMESIS and the Junior Research Group Creativity and Genius. Her PhD thesis focuses on representations of the creative process in biographical films. Franziska Link studied comparative literature, philosophy, Finnish language and culture, and Slavic studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Helsinki, and State University in Saint Petersburg. In 2019, she was a visiting scholar at the Pushkin House in Saint Petersburg. She is currently working on her PhD thesis on 'drastic voices' in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Louis-Ferdinand Céline (in affiliation with the International Doctoral Program MIMESIS). Johanna Spangenberg studied comparative literature and musicology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and King's College London and has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University. She was a doctoral candidate in the International Doctoral Program MIMESIS from 2017-2020 and currently holds a scholarship from the Stiftung Bildung und Wissenschaft [Foundation for Education and Science] to complete her PhD thesis on the relationship between poetry and music in the works of Stéphane Mallarmé, Pierre Boulez, and Gilles Deleuze. Antonia Stichnoth studied comparative literature and film studies at the Free University of Berlin and École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Since 2017, she has been a PhD candidate at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where she also works as a research assistant. Her dissertation deals with concepts of 'reality' in newspaper inquiries published in the Weimar Republic. She was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York and is an associated member of the International Doctoral Program MIMESIS.