Contributors

shelley hay (shay@uwlax.edu) is an assistant professor of German at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. Since receiving her PhD from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, her research has focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature, music in literature, and the intersections between philosophy and popular culture.

marc david baer (m.d.baer@lse.ac.uk) is a professor of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He currently researches the interconnected histories of Turks, Jews, and Muslims in Weimar and Nazi Germany and has published articles on this topic in Comparative Studies in Society & History and The American Historical Review.

katra a. byram (byram.4@osu.edu) is an associate professor of German at Ohio State University. Her research focuses on cultural and literary negotiations of self from the nineteenth century to the present. She is the author of Ethics and the Dynamic Observer Narrator: Reckoning with Past and Present in German Literature (2015).

jason johnson (jjohnso7@trinity.edu) is an assistant professor of history at Trinity University where he teaches courses on modern Europe. He holds a PhD from Northwestern University. His 2017 book Divided Village: The Cold War in the German Borderlands centers on the Iron Curtain division of the village Mödlareuth.

brent peterson (brent.peterson@lawrence.edu) is a professor of German at Lawrence University, has published widely on German-American literature, the construction of nineteenth-century German identity, and the issue of migration in German culture. His current project is focused on expanding the definition of “migrant narratives” and recognizing migrants as “co-constitutive” of German culture.

mariana ivanova (ivanovmz@miamioh.edu) is an assistant professor of German at Miami University. Her research focuses on the cooperation between DEFA and Eastern or Western European film studios, transnational cinema, and postwar German history and culture. She is currently completing a monograph on DEFA coproductions and film exchange between 1949 and 1989.

kathrin bower (kbower@richmond.edu) is professor and coordinator of German studies at the University of Richmond, where she teaches courses in German language and culture as well as in film and Holocaust studies. She has written and published on German-Jewish writers, Holocaust representation, German cinema, Turkish-German comedy, and East-West German relations.