Photo credit: Niels Leiser for the Mosse Lectures

Pankaj Mishra: award-winning essayist and novelist. Author of From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt against the West and the Remaking of Asia (2013) and Age of Anger: A History of the Present (2017).

Ethel Matala de Mazza has been professor of modern German literature at Humboldt University since 2010. She is the author of three monographs, including Der populäre Pakt. Verhandlungen der Moderne zwischen Operette und Feuilleton (Fischer, 2018) and Der verfaßte Körper. Zum Projekt einer organischen Gemeinschaft in der Politischen Romantik (Rombach, 1999). She has served as a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Indiana, Bloomington, and the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago. She received her terminal degree in German literature at the University of Munich in 2007.