Peter C. Meilaender is Professor of Political Science at Houghton College. The author of Toward a Theory of Migration (2001), his current research focuses on politics and literature, especially German-language literature. He is co-director of the Swiss Studies Network of the German Studies Association and a member of the board of the Austrian Studies Association.Hans J. Rindisbacher is Professor of German Studies at Pomona College. His The Smell of Books: A Cultural-Historical Study of Olfactory Perception in Literature (1992) is a pathbreaking comparative literary study of olfactory representation. He is co-director of the Swiss Studies Network of the German Studies Association.