About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Laura Deiulio is Assistant Professor of German at Christopher Newport University. Her research focuses on women writers in German Romanticism and the city in literature around 1900. She has articles published or forthcoming on Esther Gad and Rahel Levin Varnhagen and is co-editing Rahel's letters with Auguste Brede for the Edition Rahel Levin Varnhagen.
Esther Dischereit was born in 1952 in Germany. She studied in Frankfurt am Main and was trained as a teacher, though she also entered the metal industry and later became a typesetter who worked for the German trade unions. As a poet, novelist, essayist, and stage and radio dramatist, Dischereit has written works that include Joëmis Tisch, Merryn, Der Morgen an dem der Zeitungsträger, Als mir mein Golem öffnete, Rauhreifiger Mund oder andere Nachrichten, Im Toaster steckt eine Scheibe Brot, Übungen jüdisch zu sein, and Mit Eichmann an der Börse. She was a fellow at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European and Jewish Studies, and has lectured widely in the United States, including at Princeton University in 2006 and MIT in Boston. At the annual Women in German meeting in Sunbird, Utah in October 2006, she presented her poetry as the invited writer.
Sonja Fritzsche is Co-Chair and Associate Professor of German and Eastern European Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. In 2006 Fritzsche published her book Science Fiction Literature in East Germany. She has also published articles in the areas of East German film, science fiction, and on Ursula K. Le Guin in the Journal of Utopian Studies, Extrapolation, The German Quarterly, and the German Studies Review. Her current project looks at the portrayal of Heimat in the DEFA film Du bist min: Ein deutsches Tagebuch.
Cathy S. Gelbin is Lecturer (Associate Professor) in German Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. She specializes in German-Jewish [End Page 244] culture, Holocaust Studies, gender, and film. Her publications include Archiv der Erinnerung: Interviews mit Überlebenden der Shoah (coeditor, 1998), AufBrüche: Kulturelle Produktionen von Migrantinnen, Schwarzen und jüdischen Frauen in Deutschland (co-editor, 1999), and An Indelible Seal: Race, Hybridity and Identity in Elisabeth Langgässer's Writings (2001). She has written on a wide range of postwar Jewish authors and is currently preparing a monograph on the Golem figure in nineteenth- and twentieth-century German culture.
Christina Gerhardt taught in the Department of German at the University of California at Berkeley from 2000 to 2006. She is editor of Adorno and Ethics, New German Critique 97 (2006). Her publications on critical theory include an article in New German Critique and the entry on Adorno in the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (2004). She is currently a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Center for European Studies where she is working on her new book project that examines representations of the RAF in literature, art, and film.
Jennifer Good is Assistant Professor of German at Baylor University, where she teaches language, literature, and film and often accompanies the Baylor in German program to Dresden. Her research interests include post-1945 Germany (East and West) and Austria, including literature, film, and politics. She is especially interested in the gendering of the Cold War and how this is reflected in DEFA films.
Barbara Hales is Assistant Professor of History at University of Houston-Clear Lake, where she teaches European history and film history. She has published articles on women's history and Weimar cinema, and is currently working on a project examining constructions of woman and the occult in Weimar dance and cinema.
Lisabeth Hock is Assistant Professor of German at Wayne State University in Detroit. She has published a monograph on Bettina von Arnim (Lang, 2001) and articles on nineteenth-century German women writers as well as on information literacy across the German curriculum. The article in this volume is part of a book project on women and melancholy in the nineteenth-century German context.
Laurie Johnson is Associate Professor of German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has published The Art of Recollection in Jena Romanticism...
