Contributors
- Contributors
Karin Bauer is associate professor and chair of the Department of German Studies at McGill University. Her current research focusses on Ulrike Meinhof and the formation of counterpublic spheres, Herta Müller, and critical theory, especially the cultural criticism of Theodor W. Adorno. Her publications include Everybody Talks About the Weather: We don’t: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof (Seven Stories Press, 2008), Adorno’s Nietzschean Narratives (SUNY, 1999), and articles and essays on a variety of authors and issues of modern and contemporary literature and thought.
Gerrit-Jan Berendse is professor of Modern European Literature and Culture at Cardiff University, United Kingdom. His fields of interest are contemporary German poetry and the relationship between terrorism and aesthetics. His latest publications include Schreiben im Terrordrom: Gewaltcodierung, kulturelle Erinnerung und das Bedingungsverhältnis zwischen Literatur und RAF-Terrorismus (edition text + kritik, 2005) and, edited with Ingo Cornils, Baader-Meinhof Returns: History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism (Rodopi, 2008). Currently, he is completing a monograph on the poetry of Erich Fried.
Svea Bräunert is a PhD candidate in the Department of German Literature at Humboldt University in Berlin. She was a Fulbright fellow at Washington University in St. Louis and is currently conducting research at Cornell University. Her work has appeared in German Life and Letters and literatur für leser as well as in exhibition catalogues and anthologies such as Art of Two Germanys: Cold War Cultures (Abrams, 2009) and Nachbilder der RAF (Böhlau, 2008). At present, she is completing her dissertation titled “Das geerbte Phantom: Künstlerische Archivierungen des westdeutschen Terrorismus 1968–2008.”
Christina Gerhardt, recently a visiting scholar at Columbia University and soon to be a visiting assistant professor at Pacific University in Portland, Oregon, is currently working on a book project titled “Critique of Violence: The Trauma of Terrorism,” which examines representations of terrorism in literature, art, and film from 1970 to 2009. Her project has been funded by the Fulbright Commission, the Berlin Program, the DAAD, Harvard’s Center for European Studies, and UC-Berkeley, where she taught in the Department of German from 2000 to 2006. [End Page 121]
Patricia Melzer is an assistant professor of German and Women’s Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia. Her recent publications focus on women in left-radical social movements in West Germany in the 1970s and 80s. She is currently working on a book project on women in the RAF and the June 2 Movement that examines the implications of their actions for feminist political thought. She is author of the monograph Alien Constructions: Science Fiction and Feminist Thought (U of Texas P, 2006).
Petra Rethmann (PhD, McGill) is associate professor of Anthropology at McMaster University, a faculty member in the Cultural Studies & Critical Theory program, and a member of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition. She writes and teaches on the relationship between history, memory, and politics, as well as on aesthetics, art, political possibility, potentially, and imagination. She is currently working on a book that examines the cultural politics of left-wing collectives and movements that emerged in West Germany in the 1970s and 80s. She is the author of Tundra Passages (2001), co-editor of Globality: Frictions and Connections (2010), and the author of numerous articles that have appeared in edited volumes and in journals such as American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropologica, Cultural Critique, and Anthropologie et Société.
Eric Scheufler is a graduate student at the University of Washington-Seattle, currently working on his dissertation on nineteenth-century historical fiction, more specifically how mythology functions as a form of structural narration that mediates between history and fiction. He recently published an article on Hofmannsthal’s Elektra in the volume he co-edited (with Dr. Christian Meierhofer), Turns und Trends der Literaturwissenschaft: Literatur, Kultur und Wissenschaft zwischen 1848 und 1914 im Fokus aktueller Theoriebildung through germanistik.ch in both online and paper format. [End Page 122]
