Ina Habermann is Professor of English at the University of Basel. She is Director of the Centre of Competence Cultural Topographies and author of Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow: Priestley, du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishness (Palgrave 2010).Daniela Keller is a PhD candidate at the University of Basel working on literary depictions of Germany in contemporary British fiction with a particular focus on the relationship between physics and fiction.