Angela Fabris is Associate Professor of Romance Studies at the Universität Klagenfurt and is an expert in eighteenth-century Italian literature. She has authored a book and numerous papers on journalistic, narrative, theatrical and travel literature of the eighteenth century. Her expertise in visual cultures and cultural studies means that Fabris will play an important role in developing the transmedial aspects of the project. She is in charge of WP 3: Transmedial exchanges.

Paul Goring is Professor of British Literature and Culture at NTNU. He has specialist interests in theatre history, the actor and playwright Charles Macklin, the life and works of Laurence Sterne, and the mediation of news. He is in charge of WP 1: Socio-political exchanges.

Marius Warholm Haugen is Professor of French Literature at NTNU. Specializing in eighteenth-century studies, he is particularly interested in transnational exchanges, circulation, and translation in and between Italian, French, and British literature. He will conduct research on the representation of the lottery fantasy in French print culture and its connections to Italy and Britain. In addition to being project leader, he is in charge of WP 2: Transnational Exchanges.

Natalie Hoage is PhD candidate at NTNU, starting in January 2022. Her project will examine the text, illustrations and other media intended for the advertisement of national lotteries in Europe from the eighteenth-century to present day. Within the context of Print History and the category of advertisements, her research aims to define, classify and compare the historical and contemporary perspectives of the lottery fantasy. 

Johanne Slettvoll Kristiansen is Postdoctoral Fellow at NTNU, starting in March 2022. She will explore debates surrounding state-funded lotteries in Scandinavia, with an emphasis on the tensions between the moral and sociopolitical implications of gambling and the financial and political development of modern European states. Adopting a comparative and transmedial approach, Kristiansen will examine a wide range of historical and literary sources in order to determine how state-funded lotteries were negotiated both by the governing authorities and a larger public in Sweden and Denmark-Norway (Norway after 1814) in the period 1750-1920.

Professor James Raven is a Life Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is a renowned book historian who has researched and published since 1991 on the British state lottery. Raven gave the Mellon Lectures at Yale University (Macmillan Centre) in 2010, on ‘Histories of the English State Lottery’ and his book for Oxford University Press entitled Lottery Lives is near to completion and submission.

Jeroen Salman is Associate Professor at Universiteit Utrecht, and is a cultural historian who specialises in early-modern book history and the history of science. He is a reputed expert on European popular print culture with a large international network. He was the leader of the project ‘The European Dimensions of Popular Print Culture’ (EDPOP, 2016-2018) that aimed to develop an international network and a virtual research environment to facilitate and stimulate innovative research on European popular print culture.

Michael Scham is Associate Professor of Spanish at NTNU. He is a specialist in early-modern Spanish literature and is the author of “Lector Ludens”: The Representation of Games and Play in Cervantes. 

Inga Henriette Undheim is Associate Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. She is an expert in eighteenth-century Dano-Norwegian literature and has also published articles on Norwegian nineteenth-century literature. Her main contribution to the project will be to explore the lottery fantasy in the Scandinavian periodical press and fiction, including children’s literature, as well as providing comparative perspectives on eighteenth-century and contemporary versions of the lottery fantasy in different literary genres. She is in charge of WP 4: Continuities and ruptures