Astrid M. Fellner is chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University, Germany, where she currently also serves as dean of studies of the Faculty of Humanities. She is head of the UniGR-Center for Border Studies at Saarland U and co-editor of a trilingual Border Glossary, a handbook of key terms in Border Studies. She has been involved in a series of research and teaching projects with Ukrainian universities. A member of the BMBF-project "Linking Borderlands," she studies industrial films of the Greater Region SaarLorLux+ and the German/Polish border. Her publications include Articulating Selves: Contemporary Chicana Self-Representation (2002), the (co-)edited collections Narratives of Border Crossings: Literary Approaches and Negotiations (2021), B/Orders are (not) everywhere (for everyone) (2023), The Biopolitics of Borders in Times of Crisis (2023), and Bordertextures: A Complexity Approach to Cultural Border Studies (fc), as well as the journal issues Desbordes/Undoing Borders (2021) and Border Renaissance (fc). Astrid is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.