About the Contributors
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Jennifer Drake Askey received her Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Washington University in St. Louis in 2003 with a dissertation on popular literature for girls and its intersection with Prussian and German nationalism in the late nineteenth century. She is Assistant Professor of German at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas and teaches all levels of German language and literature to undergraduates and MA students. She continues to research girls' literature, education, and nationalism in the long nineteenth century and maintains a persistent fascination with Queen Luise of Prussia.
Kerstin Barndt is Assistant Professor for German Studies and affiliated faculty member of the Museum Studies Program at the University of Michigan. Her research and publications encompass German modernism, the history of reading, gender theory, and museum studies. She is the author of Sentiment und Sachlichkeit. Der Roman der Neuen Frau in der Weimarer Republik (2003). Her current book project, Exhibition Effects. History, Aesthetics, and Memory in Germany after 1989, focuses on the representation of time and history in contemporary museum and exhibition culture.
Katharina Gerstenberger (Ph.D., Cornell University) is Associate Professor of German at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Truth to Tell: German Women's Autobiographies and Turn-of-the Century Culture (2000) and Writing the New Berlin: The German Capital in Post-Wall Literature (2008). Her recent publications include articles on the Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger, the German-Turkish writer Zafer Şenocak, and contemporary Berlin literature. Her work has appeared in Monatshefte, Women in German Yearbook, and German Quarterly, and in several anthologies, including Recasting German Identity (2002) and German Literature in the Age of Globalization (2004).
Alexandra Merley Hill is Visiting Assistant Professor at Williams College. She has presented on Julia Franck and contemporary German [End Page 241] literature at the GSA, MLA and WiG conferences and has published on Frank and contemporary German art. Currently she and Florence Feiereisen are co-editing an anthology on Sound Studies titled German Soundscapes of (Post)Modernity.
Jennifer Ruth Hosek is Assistant Professor of German at Queen's University, a research institution in Ontario. After receiving her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley, she spent two years as a Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University and in Berlin on a grant from the city parliament. Her completed manuscript Sun, Sex and Socialism: A Cultural History of Cuba and the Germans is a case study of the impact of the global South on the North. She has published on German film and literature, the women's movement, and the intersections of critical theory and neuroscience. She received Berkeley's Outstanding Teaching Award in 2000 and served on the Steering Committee of Women in German from 2001 to 2004. She co-edits the WiG Bibliography and chairs the German Studies Association Taskforce on New Faculty.
Maggie McCarthy is Associate Professor of German and Coordinator for Film and Media Studies at Davidson College. She co-edited Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective. She has published essays in Camera Obscura, German Quarterly, German Politics and Society, Women in German Yearbook, and in numerous anthologies on various German film directors and authors. Upcoming essays focus on Louise Brooks in Pandora's Box and Germans in The Big Lebowski.
Anita McChesney is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on detective literature and the intersection between narrative forms and the media in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century Austrian and German literature and culture. She has authored articles on narrative aspects in contemporary Austrian literature, including analyses of Peter Handke's detective stories, and of intersections of media, narration, and Austrian history in the work of Gerhard Roth, Christoph Ransmayr, and W.G. Sebald.
Traci S. O'Brien is Assistant Professor of German at Auburn University. Her current research focuses on women writers of the nineteenth century. The article in this volume is part of a book project on aspects of power and domination in works by women authors engaged in emancipatory movements in the nineteenth century. [End Page 242]
Christine Rinne is Assistant Professor of German at the University of South Alabama. Her research focuses on...
