About the Contributors
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Elizabeth Ametsbichler is professor of German and co-chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Montana. She served as book review editor for the German Studies Review (2004-11). She also was on the founding Executive Committee of the Modern Austrian Literature and Cultural Association (now Austrian Studies Association) (2001-5). Publications include coeditor of Women Writers in German-Speaking Countries (1998), translation of Hedwig Dohm's Werde, die du bist (2005), and articles on Schnitzler, Werner Schwab, and Elsa Bernstein.
Necia Chronister is assistant professor of German in the Department of Modern Languages at Kansas State University. She received her PhD in 2011 from Washington University in St. Louis with the dissertation "Topographies of Sexuality: Space, Gender, and Movement in German Literature and Film since 1989." Her current project examines the theme of housing renovation in German-language literature and film since 1989, and particularly how housing renovation as a theme can affect depictions of gender relations, the family, the economics of home, and changing concepts of Heimat.
Angelica Fenner is associate professor of German and cinema studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Race under Reconstruction in German Cinema (2011) and of various articles published in film anthologies and journals on topics emerging from her research domains, which include diasporic cinemas, studies in documentary form, and first-person filmmaking, [End Page 138]
Helen Finch has been an academic fellow in the German Department at the University of Leeds since 2009. She completed her PhD from Trinity College, Dublin, with a dissertation comparing W. G. Sebald's novels with works by his contemporaries Botho Strauß and Peter Handke (2007).
Julie Klassen is professor emeritus of German at Carleton College, where she also taught in the environmental studies program, including a course on the forest in German literature and culture. Her research has included topics in GDR literature, environmental writings, minority literature, and twentieth-century drama. Her publications include essays on Barbara Frischmuth, Bertolt Brecht, and Carl Amery. She coedited and translated a volume of eighteenth-century essays on the debate surrounding Jewish emancipation in Berlin, including essays by David Friedländer and Friedrich Schleiermacher. She is currently working on translations of texts by Angela Krauß.
Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger is professor of German and of women and gender studies at Lafayette College and director of the Max Kade Center for German Studies. Since 2001 she has served as general editor of the Austrian Culture Series at Peter Lang Publishing. She is a founding member of the Austrian Studies Association (formerly MALCA) and has published on contemporary Austrian literature and film. Some coedited books are Staging EXPORT: VALIE zu Ehren (2010), Elfriede Jelinek: Writing Woman, Nation, and Identity (2007), and Post-War Austrian Theater: Text and Performance (2002).
Olivia Landry is a PhD candidate in the Germanic Studies Department at Indiana University in Bloomington. She is currently completing a dissertation titled "The Performance of Berlin School Cinema." She also has a forthcoming article on the topic of post-migrant theater in Germany, "German Youth against Sarrazin: Nurkan Erpulat's Verrücktes Blut and Clash as Political Theatre of Experience."
Beret Norman received her PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is associate professor of German at Boise State University and has published articles on filmmaker Barbara Albert, writer Julia Franck, painter Neo Rauch, and Austrian politician H. C. Strache. Her current research focuses on writer Antje Rávic Strubel's works. [End Page 139]
Katie Sutton is an Australian Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne, where she is researching the historical relationship between the disciplines of sexology and psychoanalysis. She has previously undertaken postdoctoral research on early twentieth-century German sexual subcultures as a DAAD fellow at the University of Potsdam, Germany and has published the book The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany (2011). [End Page 140]
