Contributors
- Contributors
[End Page 568] STEPHAN ATZERT completed his studies at Melbourne in 1998 and is now Lecturer in German at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. His research pursues further his Ph.D. dissertation on the reception of Schopenhauer (Schopenhauer und Thomas Bernhard, Rombach, 1999), to include consideration of Nietzsche, Freud, and Orientalistics. He has published articles on Bernhard, on Schopenhauer’s sources, and on Schopenhauer and Buddhism.
ANDREA BANDHAUER teaches German and International and Comparative Literature at the University of Sydney. Her research interests include literary and textual theory, gender, performativity, migration studies, and contemporary Austrian literature. Recent publications include articles on gender studies, Elfriede Jelinek, and the contemporary Austrian playwright and author Margret Kreidl.
MICHAEL COWAN earned his Ph.D. at the University of California in Berkeley and currently teaches courses in German, film, and interdisciplinary studies at McGill University in Canada. His research and teaching interests include film, modernism, and the history of the body. His forthcoming book, The Cult of the Will: Nervousness and German Modernity, explores the role played by the “will” in the self-fashioning of German modernity.
JENNIFER CREECH received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and is now an Assistant Professor of German at the University of Rochester. Her research and teaching interests include twentieth-century German literature, film, and culture; cinema studies; Marxist and feminist theories; and East German women’s literature. Her most recent publications explore the critical impulses in East German women’s films, and her current research projects involve an investigation of women’s films in the former Eastern bloc and post-socialist identity.
AXEL FLIETHMANN completed his Ph.D at the University of Cologne and now teaches at Monash University, where his research and teaching interests include media theory, visual culture, literary and aesthetic theory, and the European novel in the nineteenth century. He has also published a monograph on Stellenlektüre (Niemeyer, 2001) and edited the volume Korrespondenzen. Visuelle Kulturen zwischen Früher Neuzeit und Gegenwart (Mont, 2002).”
ULRIKE GARDE completed her studies at Monash University and is now Lecturer in German Studies, in the Department of European Languages at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research background is in German Studies as Cultural Studies, in particular the question of creating cultural identities in literature, the performing arts, and critical reviews. In recent years, she has researched Australian-German cross-cultural relationships with a focus on the Australian reception of drama by German-speaking playwrights.
ANETTE GUSE studied in Heidelberg and in Waterloo (Canada), and she completed her Ph.D. at Queen’s University. She is now Assistant Professor of German at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, engaged in research on eighteenth-century German opera and theatre, on German cinema, and on language pedagogy. She has published articles on the Hamburg Opera and on the medium of film in language teaching, and she is currently working on a project dealing with Kurt Weill’s music theatre. She is president of the Canadian Association of Teachers of German.
MARKUS HALLENSLEBEN completed his studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and has taught in Berlin, at the University of Tokyo, Nagoya City University, and the University of British Columbia. His teaching and research interests include nineteenth- to twenty-first-century German literature, avant-garde movements, and aesthetics. He has published a monograph on Else Lasker-Schüler and coedited two volumes on cultural studies theory, rhetoric, and media. His current research project investigates the double-bind imagery of avant-garde aesthetics by analyzing body metaphors in literature, sciences, and art.
MARIANNE HENN is Professor of German at the University of Alberta. Her research and teaching interests include German literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the Age of Goethe, women writers, German fairy tales and folk tales, and historiography. In addition to articles, she has published [End Page 569] editions on Benedikte Naubert (with Anita Runge and Paola Mayer, 2001), Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1999 and 2006), Body Dialectics at the Age of Goethe (with Holger Pausch, 2003), Geschichte(n)– Erzählen. Konstruktionen von Vergangenheit in literarischen Werken deutschsprachiger Autorinnen seit dem 18. Jahrhundert (with Irmela von der Lühe and Anita Runge, 2005), and...
