Florian Freitag received his PhD in North American literatures from the U of Constance (Germany) in 2011 and has been a professor of American Studies at the U of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) since 2019. Freitag is the author of The Farm Novel in North America: Genre and Nation in the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, 1845-1945 (Camden House 2013) and Popular New Orleans: The Crescent City in Periodicals, Theme Parks, and Opera, 1875-2015 (Routledge 2021), his other work has appeared in Canadian Literature, American Literary Naturalism, and The Journal of Popular Culture. A former employee of Disneyland Paris, Freitag has co-written the first transdisciplinary introduction to theme parks, Key Concepts in Theme Park Studies: Understanding Tourism and Leisure Spaces (Springer 2023).