- Contributors
Hiltrud Arens received her Ph.D. in German Studies from the University of Maryland in 1997. Her research interests focus on contemporary writers in Germany with a special emphasis on minority writing and postcolonial and feminist theory. Her teaching covers nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. She has published a book entitled 'Kulturelle Hybridität' in der deutschen Minoritätenliteratur der achtziger Jahre, and her current research project involves recent works by Yoko Tawada linking her writing to globalization and media studies.
Cindy Brewer holds a Ph.D. in German Literature from the University of Utah and is currently an assistant professor at Brigham Young University. She is the associate director of Sophie: a Digital Library of Works by German-Speaking Women (http://sophie.byu.edu/). Her primary research focusses on German literature by women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and missionary literature written in or about Africa during Germany's colonial era.
Nicole Brunnhuber studied Modern Languages at the University of Oxford and the Sorbonne. Her doctoral research at the University of Southern California and the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies (University of London) focussed on the exile experience of German-speaking refugees in Great Britain, 1933-45. Her research interests and publications cover exile studies, German film, transcultural and gender studies. She is currently examining themes of guilt, complicity, and reconciliation in German literature of the "Stunde null."
Annette Bühler-Dietrich received her Ph.D. in German at the University of Virginia and teaches German literature at Stuttgart University. Her research covers issues of migration and globalization, especially in nineteenth-century German-American literature, as well as nineteenth-century German popular drama. She is the author of Auf dem Weg zum Theater: Else Lasker-Schüler, Marieluise Fleißer, Nelly Sachs, Gerlind Reinshagen, Elfriede Jelinek (2003) and is currently coediting a book on Glaube und Geschlecht (forthcoming).
Kathleen Condray is an assistant professor of German at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her most recent publications are Women Writers of the Journal Jugend from 1919-1940: "Das Gehirn unsrer lieben Schwestern" (2004) and an article on language, power, and homoeroticism in Jan Peter Bremer's Der Fürst spricht (2004).
Jeroen Dewulf received his Ph.D. in German at the University of Oporto, Portugal, and has been teaching German cultural history and Dutch at the University of Oporto since 1983. He was guest lecturer at the Universities of São Paulo, Fortaleza, and Antwerp. His research covers contemporary Swiss literature and postcolonial studies from a Latin-American perspective. He has published a monograph on the Swiss writer Hugo Loetscher (Lang, 1999) and edited a collection of essays on Loetscher (Diogenes, 2005). [End Page 353]
Patrick Farges has studied German Studies in Paris, Berlin, Toronto, and Berkeley and is now a Ph.D. candidate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. His dissertation focusses on microhistorical acculturation mechanisms among German-speaking refugees in Canada after 1933. He is currently Lecturer of German at the University of Burgundy (France). His research interests include intertextual and transfer mechanisms in literature and culture, as well as the literary expression of displacement, exile, and migration.
Jessica Gallagher is completing her Ph.D. in German at the University of Queensland. She has been teaching courses on German language and German and European cinema since 2002 and is researching the representation of Turkish immigrants in recent Turkish-German cinema.
Marianne Henn is professor of German at the University of Alberta, where she also received her Ph.D. Her research and teaching interests include German literature and culture of the Age of Goethe, women writers of the eighteenth and ninetheenth century, German fairy tales and folk tales, and historiography. Her publications include editions on Benedikte Naubert (with Anita Runge and Paola Mayer, 2001), Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1999), Body Dialectics at the Age of Goethe (with Holger Pausch, 2003), and Geschichte(n) -Erzählen. Konstruktionen von Vergangenheit in literarischen Werken deutschsprachiger Autorinnen seit dem 18. Jahrhundert (with Irmela von der Lühe and Anita Runge, 2005).
Robert Mcfarland received his Ph.D. in German...