Contributors
- Contributors
Rosemarie Brucher, born in Graz in Austria, is working as a research assistant in the Department of Theatre Studies and Gender at the University of Arts in Berlin. She holds a PhD and a Master’s from Vienna University in Theatre, Film, and Media Studies. She wrote her Master’s thesis on the Viennese Actionist artist Günter Brus (2007). In her PhD thesis, she applies Kant’s aesthetics of the sublime to contemporary body art. From 2008 to 2011, she worked as a research assistant in the German Department at Vienna University.
Robin Jackson is an Honorary Fellow of the Karl Koenig Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland and a visiting research fellow at the University of Hertfordshire. He has a particular interest in the historical development of communal societies and contemporary issues in the field of intellectual disability. Recent research has been published in the Journal of Moravian History (2008) and The International Journal of Developmental Disabilities (2012). He edited the book Discovering Camphill: New Perspectives, Research, and Developments (Edinburgh: Floris Books, 2011).
Alexander Mathäs is professor of German at the University of Oregon and author of Narcissism and Paranoia in the Age of Goethe (University of Delaware Press, 2008) and Der Kalte Krieg in der deutschen Literaturkritik: Der Fall Martin Walser (Lang, 1992). He is also the editor of The Self as Muse: Narcissism and Creativity in the German Imagination 1750–1850 (Bucknell UP, 2011). His teaching and research address questions about the self, subjectivity, and artistic creativity in 18th–20th century German literature and thought. He has published articles on concepts of identity, gender, and memory in the works of eighteenth-through twentieth-century authors. He is currently working on a monograph that focuses on the ways in which German writers from different [End Page ix] periods since the Enlightenment have engaged with scientific and philosophical ideas about what defines a human being.
Gerd K. Schneider received his PhD from the University of Washington and has taught for over forty years at Syracuse University. Having published six books and over sixty articles and encyclopedia entries on German and Austrian contemporary writers, he has recently published Grenzüberschreitungen: Energie, Wunder und Gesetze. Das Okkulte als Weltanschauung und seine Manifestationen im Werk Arthur Schnitzlers (Praesens Verlag, 2014).
Erica Weitzman is a visiting assistant professor in German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University in 2012. From 2008 to 2011 she was a doctoral fellow with the “Lebensformen und Lebenswissen” research training group at the European University Viadrina and from 2012 to 2013 a Volkswagen Foundation postdoctoral fellow with the “Das Reale in der Kultur der Moderne” research training group at the University of Konstanz. Her book Irony’s Antics: Walser, Kafka, Roth and the German Comic Tradition is forthcoming from Northwestern UP in 2014. Her articles have also appeared in mln, German Quarterly, Law and Literature, jnt: Journal of Narrative Theory, and Theory and Event. She is currently working on a project on the notion of the obscene as a problem of representation in European realism and naturalism. [End Page x]
