Tristan Coignard, born in 1977, works as a professor for German studies and history of ideas at Université Bordeaux Montaigne (France). He is a former Junior Fellow at Institut Universitaire de France (2018-2023) and received a fellowship of the German Historical Institute for a research stay at the Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library in Philadelphia (2015). His current research focuses on debates about cosmopolitanism and education and on German immigrants in the USA. Pierre-Yves Modicom, born in 1988, is a professor for Germanic linguistics at the Linguistic Research Center - Corpus, Discourse and Societies (CEL) at Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 (France), where he is chair of the Institute for German Studies. His recent work focuses on contrasts and transfers between Germanic languages.