Contributors
- Contributors
Kerstin Mueller Dembling is lecturer and language program coordinator in German and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on the intersection of history—especially the period of World War II and the Holocaust—memory, politics, and cultural production, encompassing a variety of media. Her previous publications include articles and book chapters on German drama and theater of the Holocaust and post-unification documentary and feature films.
Wesley Lim is a visiting assistant professor of German in the Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages at Colorado College. After earning his bba from Emory University with a minor in dance and movement studies, he completed his ma and PhD in German literature and culture at Vanderbilt University. He is currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively titled Literary Dance Experiments in the City around 1900, which focuses on representations of dance and dance-like movement in the urban space. More generally, his research examines literary depictions of dance and gesture in nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and Austrian literature and film. He is also interested in investigating the use of contemporary German dance to foster German language acquisition in the classroom.
Edward Muston is currently a visiting assistant professor in the German Department at Dickinson College. He received his PhD in comparative literature from Princeton University in 2011. He has also taught at Bowdoin College, where he was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in 2012, and at Rutgers University. His current research concentrates on contemporary Austrian and German literature and film with an emphasis on innovative autobiographical forms that represent individuals simultaneously occupying [End Page xi] different languages, ethnicities, and nationalities. A second project explores the role of sports in shaping Germanic cultures. He has previously published work on Michael Glawogger, Raymond Federman, and the influence of Thomas Bernhard on the American author William Gaddis.
Bernhard Oberreither, born 1985 in Graz (Austria), studied German literature and art history in Graz and Vienna with a focus on contemporary Austrian literature and intermediality. From 2011 to 2014 he was a research employee at the University of Vienna, where he worked on the project “Das Bildzitat. Intermedialität und Tradition.” He is one of the editors of Gemälderedereien. Zur literarischen Diskursivierung von Bildern.
Yvonne Wolf is senior lecturer at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. She studied German and history and finished her doctoral thesis, entitled “Frank Thiess und der Nationalsozialismus. Ein konservativer Revolutionär als Dissident” (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2003). She has taught there since 2000, and from 2008–2014 she was also the acting manager of the German department’s study office. Her research, teaching, and published work concentrate on modernist literature (1880–1945), Austrian literature and culture, narratology, popular culture studies, and children’s literature. She is particularly interested in the works of Austrian authors such as Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal, Musil, Kafka, Doderer, Roth, and Bernhard with a corresponding fascination in the cultural history of Austria and especially Vienna. [End Page xii]
