About the Authors

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Susan C. Anderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Oregon. She works mainly on twentieth-century German and Austrian literature, the interconnection of history and literature, and baroque literature. Her publications include Grass and Grimmeishausen: "Das Treffen in Telgte " and "Rezeptionstheorie " and articles on texts by such writers as P. Schneider, G. Grass, R. Huch, and A. Schnitzler. She is presently working on a booklength project on the literary approaches to German history by Huch, Döblin, Brecht, and Grass, all of whom deal with the Thirty Years' War. Jeanette Clausen is Associate Professor of German and Chair of the Modern Foreign Languages Department at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne. She is coeditor of an anthology, German Feminism (1984), and has published articles on Helga Königsdorf, Christa Wolf, and other women writers. She was coeditor of the WIG Yearbook from 1987 to 1994. Miriam Frank is Master Teacher of Humanities in New York University 's General Studies Program. She has written about German feminist publishing for New German Critique and Connexions. She is a coauthor of The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, and she has published and lectured widely on women's labor history in the USA. She has also coauthored Pride at Work: Organizing for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Unions, an organizing and bargaining guide. As the 1995 NYU Vladeck Fellow she is researching a book-length study on the history and contemporary organizing campaigns of Lesbian and Gay union activists. Sara Friedrichsmeyer is Professor of German at the University of Cincinnati. Her publications include The Androgyne in Early German Romanticism (1983) and the coedited volume The Enlightenment and Its Legacy (1991). She has published articles on German Romanticism, feminist theory, and various nineteenth- and twentieth-century German women, among them Caroline Schlegel-Schelling, Annette von DrosteH ülshoff, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, and Christa Wolf. Her current project is a coedited volume (with Sara Lennox and Susanne Women in German Yearbook 10 (1994) 274About the Authors Zantop) tentatively titled The Imperialist Imagination. She has been coeditor of the Women in German Yearbook since 1990. Marjorie Gelus is Professor of German at California State University, Sacramento. Her research interests include literature of the Goethe era, issues of literary theory, and feminist theory and criticism. She has published articles and reviews principally on Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist, Franz Kafka, and Thomas Bernhard, and is currently working on a book of feminist revisions of the stories of Kleist. Brigid Haines is a lecturer in German at University College of Swansea, Wales. She is the author oí Dialogue and Narrative Design in the Works ofAdalbert Stifter and of articles on Stifter, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Christa Wolf, and Helga Königsdorf. She is interested in nineteenth-century literature, women's writing, and critical theory, and is currently Treasurer and Membership Secretary of the British organization "Women in German Studies." Gail K. Hart was born in Rochester, NY. She is Associate Professor of German and Associate Dean of Humanities for Undergraduates at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Readers and Their Fictions in the Novels and Novellas of Gottfried Keller (1989) and of a recently completed study of gender politics in bürgerliches Trauerspiel, as well as articles on Keller, CF. Meyer, Lessing, Goethe, and SacherMasoch . She is currently working on a project involving the history of capital punishment, the social conventions of execution, and dramatic and fictional representations of scheduled death. Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota —Twin Cities and editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She has published articles and books on German women writers in the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, the interpretation of women's lives through personal narratives, US feminist criticism, and the politics of the essay, among others. Her research is increasingly focused on the intersection of US feminist theorizing and German Studies. At the moment, she is completing a book on the representation and self-representation of German women writers in the nineteenth century as examined through the lenses of feminist and cultural...