Notes on Contributors
Alicja Kowalska is currently a DAAD-lecturer at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen,Czech Republic. She received her PhD in German Studies in 2013 from New York
University. She has published on Heinrich von Kleist and Stanley Cavell.
Alexandra Preitschopf studied History and French Philology at the University of Salzburg.
In 2016, she completed her PhD thesis in Contemporary History. From 2016 to 2021 sheworked as a lecturer for OeAD (Austrian exchange service) in the department of GermanStudies at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (Bulgaria). Since March 2021 she has helda position as a Postdoctoral Assistant at the University of Klagenfurt and currently works ona research project on the multi-layered impact of the Russian emigration on anti-communism
in interwar Europe.
Thomas Diesner is psychoanalyst and independent philosopher. He studied philosophy andcultural anthropology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin
and received his PhD from the Technische Universität Berlin in 2015. Since 2007 he has been
managing director of the Society for Human Ontogenetics and since 2010 the independent
project manager for intercultural and interdisciplinary projects. He has been in private
practice as a psychoanalyst since 2022.
David Casciola is a graduate student at West Chester University, Pennsylvania, the UnitedStates. He graduated with a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from Gettysburg College in2016. He has been at West Chester since the Fall of 2021. His research focuses on politicaland social philosophy with a recent interest in the influence of aesthetics, capitalism, andconsumerism in political and social practices. Email: dc985230@wcupa.edu
Yasemin Karaağaç is a PhD candidate in the English Literature Department at Yeditepe
University, Istanbul. In 2009, she graduated from Yeditepe University’s English Teaching
Department. During 2010-2017, she worked for several colleges as an English teacher. In
2020, she received her MA Degree from the English Language and Literature Department atYeditepe University. Her research interests include: social and political philosophy, genderstudies, mythology and literary theory. Email:yasemin.kececi@std.yeditepe.edu.tr
Catherine MacMillan is an Associate Professor at the Department of English Language andLiterature in Yeditepe University (Istanbul). She obtained her PhD (in European Studies) fromMarmara University in 2008. Her research interests are interdisciplinary, including European
Studies (with a focus on Turkey’s relations with the EU, Brexit and populism) and literature(with a special interest in politics and literature). She published a monograph in 2014,
Discourse, Identity and the Question of Turkish Accession to the EU: Through the Looking
Glass, and edited another book, Contemporary Perspectives on Turkey’s EU Accession
Process, in 2018. She is also the author of various book chapters and articles.

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Lalon Fakir (1772 – 1890) is a Bengali poet-philosopher who had considerable followingand influence on the culture of Indian subcontinent with his perspective on a number ofsocio-political issues.
Sayed Muddashir Hossain is a Bangladeshi blogger with a keen interest in literature andphilosophy. He obtained his Bachelor degree from the North South University in Dakha andis currently working on his Master’s at the University of Saarland in Germany.

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