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Dear Frank, I agree with Dan that this looks like a very skewed panel. Simply in terms of workload, it is unworkable - there is no way that two people, however committed and knowledgeable, can deal with the volume of material likely to be submitted. And there is of course also an issue of coverage. We will all have personal axes to grind on this question - my own would be the absence of significant representation on German-language film - but that could be dealt with if there was critical mass for German on the panel. Since there is so much at stake here for the discipline, we surely need to protest as vigorously as possible at this point. I understand that you don't want to add to members' inboxes, but if you're to make representation on our behalf, it would make sense for those of us who want to see the panel changed to add our names to a list. So count me in. Erica Professor Erica Carter Department of German (Incoming HOD) School of Arts and Humanities King's College London The Strand London WC2R 2LS