Roy Grundmann is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Boston University. He is the author of Andy Warhol's Blow Job (2003), the editor of A Companion to Michael Haneke (2010) and Werner Schroeter (2018), and a co-editor of Michael Haneke: Interviews (2020), The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film, Vols. I-IV (2012) and American Film History: Selected Readings, Vol. 1 (Beginnings to 1960) and Vol. 2 (1960-Present) (2015). Grundmann has curated retrospectives on Andy Warhol, Michael Haneke, and Matthias Müller.Peter J. Schwartz is Associate Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and Film at Boston University.

He is the author of After Jena: Goethe's Elective Affinities and the End of the Old Regime (2010) and of articles on the Faust tradition, Georg Büchner, Michael Haneke, and Aby Warburg. Recent publications include the English translation of André Jolles's classic work of literary genre theory, Simple Forms (2017), an iconographic study of Chinese Communist paper money and Soviet silent film (2014), and an extended critical essay on Aby Warburg's relationship to cinema (2020).Gregory H. Williams is Associate Professor of Contemporary and Modern Art History at Boston University. His book, Permission to Laugh: Humor and Politics in Contemporary German Art, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2012. He is currently researching how early vocational training impacted the work of West German sculptors, painters, and printmakers in the late 1950s and 1960s. He is also co-editing a book on humor in global contemporary art.