Contributors
- Contributors
Elizabeth Bridges is assistant professor of German at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. Her research focusses on representations of science and technology in German literature and visual culture, especially the points at which those representations intersect with discourses of gender, ethnicity, and nationality. She is currently at work on a monograph with the working title “Die Mensch-Maschine: Mechanical Life in the German Imagination.”
Elun Gabriel is associate professor of Modern European History and coordinator of European Studies at St. Lawrence U. He earned his PhD from the U of California, Davis (2003). His teaching includes courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, women in modern Europe, modern Germany, the Holocaust, and genocide in the modern world. His research areas include the history of anarchism, Imperial Germany’s political culture, and utopian thought. Recent publications include “Anarchism’s appeal to German workers, 1878–1914” (2011), “The Left Liberal Critique of Anarchism in Imperial Germany” (2010), and “Performing Persecution: Witnessing and Martyrdom in the Anarchist Tradition” (2007). He is currently completing the monograph Anarchism, Social Democracy, and the Political Culture of Imperial Germany.
Patrick McConeghy received his doctorate from Stanford U and is currently professor of German in the Department of Linguistics and Languages at Michigan State U. A recent assignment to develop German and general education courses on the future led him to an exploration of science in literature, specifically the literary appropriation of entropy, information theory, and the various interpretations of quantum mechanics. His current research into this topic focuses on the works of Kehlmann, Pynchon, and Stoppard and their use of scientific theory to underscore or challenge the limits of human society and imagination.
Peter McIsaac is associate professor of German and Museum Studies at the U of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting and several articles on German and Austrian literature, film, and exhibition culture. His current research focusses on situating the Körperwelten exhibition with respect to predecessor exhibitions in the first half of the twentieth century and other forms of popular anatomy exhibition.
Gabriele Mueller is associate professor of German Studies and affiliated with The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies at York U in Toronto. Her research focusses mainly on contemporary German cinema. She has published on various aspects of postunification cinema in Germany, in particular on cinematic contributions to memory discourses. She is coeditor (with James M. Skidmore) of Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria (forthcoming). [End Page 124]
Andre Schuetze studied Germanistik at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and La Sapienza, Roma and is currently completing his dissertation, “Aspekte der Paranoia in utopischer Literatur und Film,” at the U of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include contemporary literature and topics of new media and film studies. He recently presented a paper on the film Jahrgang’45 at the 2011 RMMLA conference. Publications include “Hans Castorp auf der Umlaufbahn,” an article examining Thomas Mann’s Zauberberg, and “Die Kunst ohne Aura,” a text connecting Bourdieu and Benjamin.
Miriam Seidler is associate professor in the Institute for German Studies at Heinrich-Heine U Düsseldorf. She is author of Figurenmodelle des Alters in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (2010). Her research interests include contemporary German literature, narrative gerontology, the history of writing, and the relationship between literature and science in the literature of the seventeenth century.
Carrie Smith-Prei is assistant professor of German in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the U of Alberta. She completed her PhD at Washington U in St. Louis (2006) and taught and researched at the U of Potsdam, Trinity College Dublin, and the National U of Ireland, Maynooth. Her publications cover post-1960 German literature, culture, and film, with a focus on gender and the body, aesthetics and politics, reception and the literary market, and public and private spheres. She recently published an edited volume on lesbian representations in German-speaking culture and she is cofounder and editor of the online peer-review journal Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies. Current projects include a coedited volume on East German cityscapes and a monograph on 1960s family politics...
