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  • Contributors

Michaela Grobbel is Professor of German at Sonoma State University in Northern California. In her book Enacting Past and Present: The Memory Theaters of Djuna Barnes, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Marguerite Duras (2009), she develops her theory of a “feminist art of memory,” which shows her interest in the relationship of memory and performance in women’s autobiographical literature. She has extended this research into cultural studies, particularly ethnic minority studies, focusing on self-representation through literature, art and theater by Roma in German-speaking countries. She has published articles and book chapters about Romani autobiography and representations of Roma in literature and theater, and is currently working on a book about Romani artist Ceija Stojka.

Laura McLary is Associate Professor of German at the University of Portland, Oregon, where she teaches all levels of undergraduate language, literature, and culture. Her publications and presentations include work on Georg Trakl, Mary Wigman, Marie Pappenheim, Lilian Faschinger, Thomas Glavinic, and Austrian graphic novelists Anna-Maria Jung, Leopold Maurer, and Ulli Lust. She co-edited with Vincent Kling (La Salle University) and contributed to a collection of essays on Lilian Faschinger’s work, entitled Winning Back Lost Territory: The Writing of Lilian Faschinger, which appeared last year in Ariadne Press.

Joseph Metz is Associate Professor of German and of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies (clcs) at the University of Utah. He has published in such venues as pmla, Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift, the German Quarterly, and the Germanic Review on the intersections of gender, nation, and Austrian inner colonialism in the “borderland” writers Stifter, Rilke, and Kafka. He [End Page xi] is currently working on a book about empathy and aesthetics in German Realism and Modernism.

Anna C. Souchuk is an Assistant Professor of German and German Program Director at DePaul University in Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Yale University in 2008, with a dissertation on constructions of place in the novels of Elfriede Jelinek, Josef Haslinger, and Robert Menasse. Her research interests continue to include contemporary Austrian novels, particularly those by Josef Haslinger.

Karin S. Wozonig, Dr., studied Comparative Literature, German Language and Literature, and English Language and Literature at the University of Vienna, Austria, and at ucla. She is working as an independent scholar in Hamburg, Germany, focusing on Austrian literature of the 19th century and on the interrelation of literature and science. [End Page xii]

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