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  • Contributors

Max Haberich was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Munich. He read history for a ba at the University of York and German literature for an ma at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen. He is currently a PhD student at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, where he has just completed his thesis on Arthur Schnitzler’s and Jakob Wassermann’s senses of German-Jewish identity. He has articles on Schnitzler forthcoming in the journal Central Europe and the volume The Silent Morning: Culture and Memory after the Armistice, edited by Kate Kennedy and Trudi Tate (Manchester: Manchester up, 2013).

Yannick Müllender has worked as daad lecturer at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, since 2009 where he teaches German language acquisition and 18th–20th century German literature. He studied Germanic languages and literatures at the universities of Liège (Belgium), Edinburgh, and Würzburg and completed his PhD at the Freie Universität Berlin on Peter Weiss and the reception of the Holocaust in West Germany. He has published on Peter Weiss and second-generation German-Jewish writing.

Sarah S. Painitz is an instructor of German at Butler University in Indianapolis. She received her PhD from the University of Virginia in 2007 with a dissertation on Austrian women writers of the interwar years. Her publications include essays on Ingeborg Bachmann, Mela Hartwig, and Veza Canetti. Her current research focuses on the intersection of modernist narrative techniques and visual culture in the early twentieth century. [End Page xiii]

John Pizer is professor of German and comparative literature at Louisiana State University and Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. He has published on a number of Austrian authors, including Karl Kraus, Elfriede Jelinek, Joseph Roth, Gerhard Roth, Franz Grillparzer, Karl Kraus, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. He is a former member of the editorial board of Modern Austrian Literature. His two most recent books are The Idea of World Literature: History and Pedagogical Practice (2006) and Imagining the Age of Goethe in German Literature, 1970–2010 (2011).

Janet Stewart is senior lecturer in German and visual culture at the University of Aberdeen. Her main research interests are in visual culture: Viennese modernism, especially architecture, and in the sociology and philosophy of space, architecture, and communication with a particular interest in Berlin and Vienna. Her books include Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos’s Cultural Criticism (2000) and Public Speaking in the City: Debating and Shaping the Urban Experience (2009). [End Page xiv]

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