About the Contributors

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Elizabeth R. Baer is Professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College , where she holds the Florence and Raymond Sponberg Chair of Ethics. She also serves as a Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota where she teaches a course entitled "Women and the Holocaust : Gender, Memory and Representation." She was the recipient of a Fulbright Award in the summer of 2000 to study the history of Jews in Germany. She is the editor of Shadows on My Heart: The Civil War Diary ofLucy Buck (1997). Her new book, Experience and Expression: Women, the Holocaust and the Third Reich (2003), is an anthology of essays on gender and the Holocaust, coedited with Myrna Goldenberg. In 2000, Elizabeth Baer was awarded the Virginia Hamilton Prize for the Best Essay on Multicultural Children's Literature for an article on children's literature about the Holocaust. She is also the coeditor, with her daughter, Hester Baer, of Nanda Herbermann's The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women (2000). Hester Baer is Assistant Professor of German and Film and Video Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She received her PhD in German , with a graduate certificate in Women's Studies, from Washington University in 2000. Her research interests focus on gender and popular culture in postwar and post-unification Germany. She has articles published or forthcoming on the gendering of popular and avant-garde filmmaking practices in Herbert Veseley's Das Brot der frühen Jahre; on sound in Rolf Thiele's Das Mädchen Rosemarie; on the 1950s women's magazine Film und Frau; and on memory, national identity, and global cinematic practice in Alfonso Cuarón's Y Tu Mamá También. She is currently completing a book manuscript about female spectators and West German cinema in the 1950s. She is also the translator and coeditor, with her mother, Elizabeth Baer, of Nanda Herbermann's The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women (2000). Karyn Ball is Assistant Professor of English specializing in critical and literary theory at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. She edited a Women in German Yearbook 19 (2003) 252About the Authors special issue of Cultural Critique on trauma and its cultural aftereffects (Fall 2000). An article "Wanted, Dead or Distracted: On Ressentiment in History, Philosophy, and Everyday Life" appeared in the fall 2002 issue of Cultural Critique and her essay "Ex/propriating Survivor Experience, or Auschwitz 'after' Lyotard" has been published in Witness and Memory: The Discourse of Trauma (2003). Angelika Bammer is Associate Professor in the Program of Culture, History, and Theory in The Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. She is the author of Partial Visions: Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970s (1991) and editor of Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question (1994) and the special issue of New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics on "The Question of 'Home'" (1992). She has published essays on the history of medicine, feminist theory, the politics of memory, and contemporary literature. David P. Benseler is Emile B. de Sauzé Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Case Western Reserve University. His numerous publications are primarily in bibliography, the history of the profession , and methods. He is co-compiler and coeditor of A Comprehensive Index to The Modern Language Journal 1916-1996; coeditor of Teaching German in Twentieth-Century America; The Dynamics of Language Program Direction; and of Teaching German in America: Prolegomena to a History. He edited The Modern Language Journal from 1980 to 1993 and the Annual Bibliography of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages from 1973 to 1979. Pascale Bos is Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies and Affiliated Faculty in the Comparative Literature, Women's Studies, and Jewish Studies Programs at the University of Texas at Austin. She has published articles on German and Dutch Jewish literature and culture, gender and the Holocaust, and second-generation Holocaust literature. She recently finished her first book-length study, Survivor Authors Seeking Address: Grete Weil, Ruth Klüger, and the Problematic Jewish "Return" to German(y). Muriel Cormican received her PhD in German Literature from Indiana University, Bloomington...