About the Authors

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Judith P. Aikin is an Associate Professor of German at the University of Iowa. In addition to teaching and research in the German Baroque, history and theory of drama and opera, and Middle High German literature within the department, she has been involved in several interdisciplinary programs. The study on Minna contained here grew out of a course she taught on images of women in German literature for the Women's Studies Program at Iowa. Sara Friedrichsmeyer is an Associate Professor of German at the University of Cincinnati, Raymond Walters College. Her research interests are feminist literary theory and German literature of the Romantic period and the 20th century. She is currently investigating women's diaries, specifically those of the early 20th century artists Paula Modersohn-Becker and Käthe Kollwitz. Thomas C. Fox, a graduate of Weslevan's College of Letters and of Yale, has worked in a Gymnasium, with the Wesleyan Program in Germany, in New York City politics, and for the Council on International Educational Exchange. Since 1984 he has been Assistant Professor of German at Washington University. He has published on Louise von François and on GDR literature. His revised dissertation on François will be published in 1986. Richard A. Horsley is Chair of the Study of Religion Program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and is working primarily on the social history of ancient Palestinian Jewish society. Ritta Jo Horsley teaches courses in women in German and European culture, general Women's Studies, German women writers, and language courses at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she is Associate Professor of German. Current research interests include Ingeborg Bachmann, Irmgard Keun, and the contemporary German women's movement. Shawn Jarvis has been conducting extensive archival research for a dissertation on Gisela von Arnim and her Märchen. To make texts by Arnim more generally available, she is editing two forthcoming publications: Das Leben der Hochgräfin Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns (Frankfurt: Insel Verlag, 1986) and Lieber Achim! Die Illustrierten Kindergeschichten und -marchen von Gisela von Arnim (Leipzig: Edition Leipzig), a facsimile edition of unknown manuscripts planned for 1987. Her research interests also include Märchen by other German women and the salon culture of the 1840's to 1870's. 141 Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres is Professor of German and Director of the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her scholarly publications include several books and numerous articles on the social and literary history of German women in the 18th-20th centuries. Barbara Mabee is a Ph.D. candidate at Ohio State University in the Department of German. Currently she is writing her dissertation on the poetry of Sarah Kirsch. She has taught German and English at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Her research and teaching interests include 19th and 20th century literature (emphasis on poetry, East German literature, and Holocaust literature), 18th century drama and questions pertaining to gender specificity in writing. Edith Waldstein is Assistant Professor of German at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research area is nineteenth-century German women writers, in particular Bettine von Arnim and the romantic salon. Her book Bettine von Arnim is scheduled for publication by Camden House in 1986-87. She is coeditor, with Marianne Burkhard, of volumes 1-3 of the Women in German Yearbook. Gesine Worm, librarian, has worked since 1978 for the GoetheInstitute , in Ireland, South America, and New York City. She is cofounder, with Marianne Landre Goldscheider, of "WiG im Goethe House New York" (1983). She has published short stories in magazines and anthologies; a detective novel is in press. 142 ...