Steve J Kulich Editor

Michael Steppat (Ph.D. from University of Münster, Germany) is Professor of Literature in English at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and an international faculty member at Shanghai International Studies University. He has been a Fulbright scholar at the University of Texas (Austin) and professor at Arizona State University. He has received Fellowships from Amherst College and the John Kluge Center. Book publications include Honor, Face and Violence: Cross-Cultural Representations of Honor Cultures and Face Cultures and Literature and Interculturality (3 volumes).

Steve J. Kulich (Ph.D. from Humboldt University of Berlin) is Distinguished Professor at Shanghai International Studies University, Founder/Co-Director of its Intercultural Institute, and has served as President of the International Academy of Intercultural Research (IAIR). Widely published, he co-edited the Vol. 36(6) Special Issue on Intercultural Pioneers for the International Journal of Intercultural Relations (2012) and is Founding Co-Editor of both the Intercultural Research topical volume series and the Journal for Intercultural Communication & Interactions Research (JICIR).