Elena Messner (Edited by) Elena Messner is an author, scholar, and a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Slavic Studies at Universität Wien, with a project on feminist periodicals from ex-Yugoslavia. She is also a lecturer in Slavic literatures at the Department of Slavic Studies at Universität Klagenfurt. Her research interests include (post-)Yugoslav literature, art and periodicals, feminist theory, translation and reception theory as well as the cultural heritage of the Yugoslav resistance movement. Cristina Beretta (Edited by) Cristina Beretta is an associate professor of Slavic literatures at the Institute of Slavic Studies at Universität Klagenfurt. Her research interests include post-Yugoslav war literature with a focus on nationalism and agency, gender- and queer studies in Russian and in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian/Montenegrin literatures with a focus on gender norms, cross-border studies, and Alps-Adriatic studies. Goran Lazicic (Edited by) Goran Lazicic holds a PhD in Slavic studies and is a lecturer in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian literatures and cultures at Universität Graz and Universität Klagenfurt. His research interests include Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literature and film, satire, comedy and subversion in literature and art, and nostalgia, paranoia, and conspiracy theories in post-socialist contexts. Markus Gönitzer (Edited by) Markus Gönitzer is a cultural worker and curator of public discussions of social policy and politics.

Since 2021 he has been a member of the board and artistic directorate of Forum Stadtpark, a production and presentation space for contemporary art in Graz. He is chairman of Verein/Drustvo Persman, the association responsible for the pedagogical and scientific curation of the Persmanhof Museum. His main fields of work include culture(s) of remembrance, theories of utopia and transformation, as well as art and cultural initiatives as vehicles of social change.