Aline Franzus
© Malte Hömberg Aline Franzus studied at the University of Münster, the University of Mumbai, and the University of Washington. During the 2023-2024 academic year, she was a DAAD teaching fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. She holds an M.Ed., and an M.A. in “British, American and Postcolonial Studies” from the University of Münster.
Her research interests lie at the intersections of literary, cultural, and book studies, particularly in US-American contexts, and with a focused interest in censorship studies. In her M.A. thesis, Contested and Commodified: The Banned Book in Contemporary US Culture, she examined the implications and ramifications of contemporary US book banning as well as how it shapes today’s cultural industries, such as publishing.
In the fall of 2024, Aline co-founded the Silent Book Club Münster. Since then, she has been organizing biweekly bibliophile community gatherings throughout the city of Münster, making her both a participant in and observer of 21st-century bookish phenomena such as the global boom—or rather revival—of reading parties and largely speaking, book clubs.
Sabrina Meyer
© S. Meyer Sabrina Meyer studied at the University of Münster and holds an M.Ed. in English and Philosophy as well as an M.A. in “British, American and Postcolonial Studies”. From 2022 to 2025, she worked as a tutor for the introductory courses in Literary and Cultural Studies.
Her research interests include border studies, trauma studies, archive and affect theory, and feminist and gender studies. Passionate about interdisciplinary approaches and formal experimentation, Meyer explores how literature and theory intersect with and shape historical and contemporary sociopolitical discourses. This is also reflected in her M.A. thesis, Archiving Absences: Necroarchivization in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive, in which she analyzes how Luiselli creates a space for absences by compiling affectively charged materials into a “Necroarchive,” foregrounding necropolitical power dynamics and prompting affective responses as impulses toward social justice.