8. Alexandra Ganser, U Wien - "Maritime Flight in Contemporary Refugee Novels from the US and Canada"

1. Caroline Rosenthal, U of Jena - "Rivers and Rivering in North American Literature"

2. Keyvan Allahyari, Oslo U - "Water and the Survivalist Imagination”

3. Kerstin Knopf, U of Bremen - "Ocean and Tides in John Steinbeck’s The Log from the Sea of Cortez"

4. Andrin Albrecht, U of Jena - "White Whales, White Pools: An Aquatic Crossmapping of Emma Cline’s The Guest (2023) and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851)"

5. Kylie Crane, U of Rostock - "Wetland Murders and other Troubles in Selected Crime Novels by Attica Locke"

6. Steve Mentz, St. John's U - "Paradigms of the Blue Humanities: Submersion, Buoyancy, Form"

7. Amanda Halter, U of Jena - "Drawing #WaterBack in Indigenous Picturebooks”

8. Alexandra Ganser, U Wien - "Maritime Flight in Contemporary Refugee Novels from the US and Canada"

9. Mita Bannerjee & Ruth Gehrmann, U Mainz - ""Waves of Knowing": Gender and Oceanic Landscapes in US American Literature"