About the Contributors

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Karin Baumgartner received her PhD from Washington University in St. Louis in 1999, and is Assistant Professor in German at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has published articles on fashion as a language of female political commentary around 1800 and on cross-dressing and the female warrior in early nineteenth-century literature . She is currently completing a book on the development of women 's political commentary in the early nineteenth century. Her research and teaching interests include historiography, theories of the public sphere, and interpretations of female violence in German literature. Julia Bertschik, PhD, studied German language and literature, theatre and drama, and art history. She earned her doctorate in 1993 with a dissertation on the relationship between history and anthropology in the historical novels of Wilhelm Raabe (Maulwurfsarchäologie, 1995) and subsequently worked as an academic assistant in the department of German Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. She is the editor of the Jahrbuch der Fouqué-Gesellschaft and is presently writing her postdoctoral dissertation on the relationship between fashion and modernity in German-language literature. Her research interests in the literature of the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries include the history of motifs and of culture, gender studies, the theory of literary imagery, genre theory, drama, and theater. Linda Dietrick, Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, received her PhD from the University of Toronto. Her publications include Prisons and Idylls: Studies in Heinrich von Kleist's Fictional World (1985), the volume (co-edited with David G. John) Momentum dramaticum: Festschrift fir Eckehard Catholy (1990), and "Women Writers and the Authorization of Literary Practice" in the collection Unwrapping Goethe's Weimar (2000). She has presented papers and published articles on Charlotte von Stein, Heinrich von Kleist, and the teaching of German Studies. The focus of her current research is women writers in classical Weimar. Women in German Yearbook 17 (2001) 246About the Authors Silke R. Falkner received her PhD from McGiIl University in 1998, and has been Assistant Professor of German at the University of Saskatchewan , Canada, since then. She has published articles on Günter Grass and Goethe. Forthcoming articles focus on the constitution of meaning in Gabrielle Alioth's novel Die stumme Reiterin (Seminar), and on emblematic representations of women (Emblematica). She is currently working on a book-length project entitled "Convention and Contradiction: Traces of Gender and Gender Paradigms in Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg's Oeuvre." Katherine R. Goodman is Professor of German Studies at Brown University . She is the author of Amazons and Apprentices: Women and the German Parnassus in the Early Enlightenment (1999) and Dis/Closures: Women's Autobiography in Germany 1790-1914 (1986). She has written consistently about German women authors and has also edited Beyond the Eternal Feminine (with Susan Cocalis, 1982), In the Shadow of Olympus: Women Authors in Germany 1790-1810 (with Edith WaIdstein , 1990), and Bettina Brentano-von Arnim: Politics and Gender (with Elke Frederiksen, 1995). Patricia Herminghouse is Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor Emerita of German Studies at the University of Rochester. Her research has focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, particularly on the literature of the GDR, the social contexts of women's writing, and the culture of German emigres in nineteenth-century America. Editor of the textbook anthology Frauen im Mittelpunkt, as well as a volume of prose works by Ingeborg Bachmann and Christa Wolf for the German Library series (1998), she was also coeditor (with Peter U. Hohendahl) of Literatur and Literaturtheorie in der DDR (1976) and DDR-Literatur der 70er Jahre (1983) and (with Magda Mueller) of Gender and Germanness: Cultural Productions ofNation (1997) and German Feminist Writings (2001). She has been coeditor of the Women in German Yearbook since 1995. Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres is Professor of German and Women's Studies at the University of Minnesota. She was coeditor of Signs from 1990 to 1995. Her research has focused on the literary and social history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German women. She has written and edited volumes on a wide range of feminist issues, including problems of marginality in the writings of nineteenth-century German women...