Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge is Associate Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Her research focus is literature of the 18th to 20th century, with particular interest in lyric poetry, metrical theory, literature and philosophy, and the relationship between sound and text. Her first monograph, Lyric Orientations: Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community appeared with Cornell University Press in 2015; she has also published on Wittgenstein, Klopstock, Nietzsche, and the contemporary poet Durs Grünbein.

Luke Fischer is a philosopher, poet, and scholar of poetry. His books include The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the "New Poems" (Bloomsbury, 2015) and the poetry collections A Personal History of Vision (UWAP, 2017) and Paths of Flight (Black Pepper, 2013). He has authored and co-edited works on poetry, philosophy, art, and the environment, including the special section "Goethe and Environmentalism" in the Goethe Yearbook (2015). He is an honorary associate of the University of Sydney.