Stephanie M. Hilger is Professor of Comparative Literature and German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA where she also holds appointments in French, Gender and Women’s Studies, and the European Union Center. Her research focuses on eighteenth-century British, French, and German literature, with a particular interest in interdisciplinary approaches to literature. She is the author of Women Write Back: Strategies of Response and the Dynamics of European Literary Culture, 1790-1805 (2009) and Gender and Genre: German Women Write the French Revolution (2014). She is also the co-editor of The Early History of Embodied Cognition from 1740 to 1920: The “Lebenskraft” Debate and Radical Reality in German Science, Music, and Literature (2015).