Barbara Burns is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Glasgow. She has published books and articles on a number of nineteenth-century German writers including Theodor Storm, Detlev von Liliencron, Louise von François and Adolf Müllner, and also has an interest in Swiss Studies, in particular the work of Eveline Hasler on which she has recently been publishing. She is Germanic Editor of the MHRA journal The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies.Joy Charnley has co-edited eight volumes of essays on Swiss literatures and history with Malcolm Pender and in 1996 they co-founded the Centre for Swiss Cultural Studies in Glasgow. She has written books and articles on French-speaking Swiss authors such as Yvette Z’Graggen, Alice Rivaz, Anne-Lise Grobéty, Anne Cuneo, Janine Massard and Amélie Plume.

• Barbara Burns and Joy Charnley: IntroductionPersonal TributesBrian Murdoch: Malcolm Pender: an AppreciationCharles Linsmayer: Malcolm Pender’s Peaceful Conquest of SwitzerlandLiterary Connections and ExchangesDariusz Komorowski: Rütli: The National Foundation Myth from an Individual Perspective. Hermann Burger’s Novel Die künstliche MutterMoray McGowan: The Tash her Father Wore: World Literature, Joyce, Kafka and the Invisible in Kemal Kurt’s Ja, sagt MollyJudith Purver: The Poet and the Princes: Eichendorff and the House of Saxe-Coburg and GothaMapping Cities and OceansThérèse Moreau: The Ways of Cities: Alice Rivaz’s Urban LandscapesBeatrice von Matt: All the Shores of the World: Max Frisch’s Push to the SeaCrossing BordersGordon Burgess: Wolfgang Borchert in SwitzerlandBarbara Burns: Negotiating the Foreign: The Nineteenth-Century Swiss Experience of the Americas in Two Novels by Eveline HaslerJoy Charnley: Laurence Deonna: Journalist, Traveller, FeministRegina Wecker: Travelling Strategies, Travelling Woman: Iris von Roten’s Swiss BookLiterature and Translation, Literature in TranslationPedro Lenz: Der Lottoschein/ The LotteryDonal McLaughlin: An ‘American’ German Novel? Ingo Schulze’s Simple StorysLinguistic CreativityRémy Charbon: New Directions in ‘Mundart’ Literature: Hansjörg Schneider’s Adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm TellFelicity Rash: ‘Un-Swiss’ Words in German Swiss LiteratureDorota Sośnicka: On Crossing National and Linguistic Borders: Zsuzsanna Gahse’s ‘Swiss-European’ Volume Instabile TexteEditors and Contributors