Contributors
- Contributors
Christina Guenther is associate professor of German at Bowling Green State University. Her presentations and publications deal with the intersection of memory and the representation of identity in fiction and film by Austrian and German writers of the second generation such as Anna Mitgutsch, Barbara Honigmann, Ruth Beckermann, Robert Schindel, and Doron Rabinovici. Her publications include Trajectories of Memory: Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust in History and the Arts, coedited with Beth Griech-Pollele, which was published in 2008 by Cambridge Scholars Press.
Heike Henderson is associate professor of German and German Section Head at Boise State University. Her research expertise is in contemporary German and Austrian literature. She has published on Turkish-German women writers, on food in literature, and on finding balance between family and career. Her current work focuses on culinary mysteries and representations of cannibalism.
Julian Reidy, born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1986, completed his doctoral thesis on “Väterliteratur” at the University of Bern in 2010. He is currently employed as a lecturer at the University of Bern and, starting in the fall of 2011, as a postdoctoral assistant at the University of Geneva.
Katja Stuckatz is a PhD Candidate in German Literature at The Pennsylvania State University. She received her Magistra Artium in German Literature, Philosophy, and Art History from the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (Germany). For her dissertation project, Ernst Jandl and the International Avant-Garde, Katja was awarded a grant from the Botstiber Foundation for Austrian-American Studies. She recently published a paper on “Mehrsprachigkeit und Ausdrucksdefizit als Quelle Lyrischer Expressivität.” [End Page xv]
Elke Sturm-Trigonakis teaches comparative literature and German literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research interests include multilingual and hybrid world literature, the picaresque, crime fiction, urban literature, and the transfer of literary themes. In addition to numerous articles in German and English, her book publications include Barcelona in der Literatur (1944–88) (1993), Barcelona: La novel—La urbana (1944–88) (1996), and Global playing in der Literatur: Ein Versuch über die Neue Weltliteratur (2007). [End Page xvi]
