Katharina Karcher is Associate Professor in German at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on protest movements and political violence in the 20th and 21st centuries. She is particularly interested in questions of gender, race, class, dis/ability, and political ideology.
Yordanka Dimcheva is a doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on the experiences of terrorist violence in France since 2015 and the complex way trauma, grief, and affect shape how the attacks are remembered.
Mireya Toribio Medina is a lawyer specialising in criminal law and a doctoral researcher at the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. Her research project analyses the construction of the narratives surrounding terrorist violence in Spain’s contemporary legal system.
Mia Parkes is a doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focusses on women’s political imprisonment in the 20th and 21st centuries, including immigration detention, and is centred largely upon testimony, memory, and the prison texts of incarcerated women.