Contributors
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Jeffrey Berman is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University at Albany. His most recent book, coauthored with Paul Mosher, Confidentiality and Its Discontents: Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy (2015), received the American Psychoanalytic Association's 2017 Courage to Dream Book Prize. He is an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Hunter Bivens is Associate Professor of Literature and German Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he also directs the Center for Cultural Studies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2006 and is the author of Epic and Exile: Novels of The German Popular Front, 1933-1945 (2015). He has also published widely on the literature and film of the former German Democratic Republic.
Robert Cohen retired from the German Department at New York University in 2012. He has published numerous articles on twentieth-century German literature and several monographs on Peter Weiss. He is the editor of Volume II/3 of the collected works of Anna Seghers, as well as the author of the historical novel Exil der frechen Frauen (2009). He is a member of the advisory board of the journal Das Argument, and of the Berlin Institute of Critical Theory (InkriT).
Helen Fehervary, Professor Emerita, Ohio State University, is a German Studies scholar specializing in twentieth-century literature, drama and theater, and intellectual history. Among her wide-ranging publications, those on Anna Seghers include the monograph Anna Seghers: The Mythic Dimension (2001); a text-critical, commentated edition of her short novel Aufstand der Fischer von St. Barbara (2002); and numerous articles. She is general editor, with Bernhard Spies, of the twenty four-volume Seghers Werkausgabe (collected works edition) published by [End Page 429] Aufbau Verlag in Berlin, of which twelve volumes have appeared to date. Her work as a literary translator includes plays by Heiner Müller (with Marc Silberman) and stories from five decades by Anna Seghers (with Amy Kepple Strawser). She is currently preparing an intellectual biography of Seghers, and is co-editing (with Strawser and Seghers's biographer Christiane Zehl Romero) a volume of scholarly articles devoted to Seghers for the German Monitor series.
John S. Kafka is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Human Services at the George Washington University School of Medicine, Supervising and Training Analyst at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, and a past Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has published widely on psychoanalytic theory and technique, time and psychoanalysis, trauma, schizophrenia, and the Holocaust. His book, Multiple Realities in Clinical Practice (1989), has been translated and published in French, German, Italian, Romanian, and Russian. His new book is Psychoanalysis: Unveiling the Past—Discovering the New: Selected Writings (2016).
Amy Kepple Strawser teaches German language and literature at Otterbein University. Her translation of Ursula Krechel's long poem Stimmen aus dem harten Kern (2005) appeared in bilingual format as Voices from the Bitter Core (2010). She has published translations of poetry by Krechel, by SAID, and by others in International Poetry Review and PEN International. Her profiles of German writers and entries on poetry have been published in the Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature and The Literary Encyclopedia. Together with Helen Fehervary, she has translated stories by Anna Seghers from all periods of her writing career. She is presently editing a volume of essays on Seghers with Fehervary and Christiane Zehl Romero that will appear in the German Monitor series. [End Page 430]
