About the Authors

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Temby Caprio is Co-Director of REELING '99: The 19th Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival. She earned her PhD in 1999 from the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago, where she taught German language, film, and writing courses. Her dissertation examines the history of the concept of "women's cinema" in West Germany from the 1950s to the 1990s. Her publications include articles on Ulrike Ottinger and Katja von Garnier's Abgeschminkt ! She is on the board of directors of Women in the Director's Chair (Chicago) and has programmed, curated, and translated for several film organizations in Berlin, Köln, and Chicago. Hedwig Fraunhofer received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon and is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages (German/French) and Interdisciplinary Studies at Georgia College and State University. She has published on Brecht's early drama Drums in the Night and is currently working on a book-length study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European drama. Her research interests include feminist and Marxist theory, psychoanalysis, European fascism, and women writers. Marjanne E. Goozé, who is Associate Professor of German and Affiliated Faculty at the University of Georgia, has research interests in German literature from the late eighteenth century to the present, with a particular focus on German women writers, Jewish-German writers, personal narratives, and feminist theory and criticism. She is the author of articles and book chapters on Bettina von Arnim, Karoline von Günderrode, Rahel Varnhagen von Ense, Friedrich Hölderlin, Franz Kafka, Christa Wolf, and Jeannette Lander. She has translated (with Jeannine Blackwell) the memoirs of Henriette Herz (Bitter Healing), published on feminist autobiography theory and contributed an essay on narratives to Feminism and Evolutionary Biology. With Anne Brown, she is the coeditor of the volume International Women 's Writing: New Landscapes of Identity (1995). Women in German Yearbook 1 5 (2000) 266About the Authors Kirsten Harjes is a PhD candidate in German Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She completed advanced degrees in German and Spanish Literature and Pedagogy at the University of Göttingen and Rutgers University. Her dissertation is on concepts of representation and authenticity in German literature, film, and the recent debates on public memorials in Germany. Her research and teaching interests include historiography, urban theory, and Jewish-German literature. Patricia Herminghouse is Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor Emerita of German Studies at the University of Rochester. Her research has focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, particularly on the literature of the GDR, the social contexts of women's writing, and the culture of German emigres in nineteenth-century America. Editor of the textbook anthology, Frauen im Mittelpunkt, she was also coeditor (with Peter U. Hohendahl) oí Literatur und Literaturtheorie in der DDR (1976) and DDR-Literatur der 70er Jahre (1983). She is coeditor (with Magda Mueller) of Gender and Germanness: Cultural Productions of Nation (1998) and editor of a volume of prose works by Ingeborg Bachmann and Christa Wolf for the German Library series (1998). She has been coeditor of the Women in German Yearbook since 1995. Martin Kagel is Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Strafgericht und Kriegstheater: Studien zur Ästhetik von Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1997) and has published articles on Ludwig Klages, Günther Anders, Günther Grass, George Tabori, and J. M.R. Lenz. Karen J. Kenkel received her PhD from Cornell University in 1995 and is Assistant Professor in German Studies at Stanford University. She has published articles on early cinema, sexuality and philosophy in the Enlightenment, nineteenth-centuries theories of the public sphere, and Weimar mass culture. She is currently completing a book on the development of ideas of mass culture and the mass audience in German aesthetic theory from the Enlightenment through Fascism. Lynda J. King, who received her PhD from the University of Southern California, is Associate Professor of German at Oregon State University, where she has taught language, literature, and culture since 1986. She has published on popular culture, German and Austrian literature and culture between the world wars, women writers, and international Women in German Yearbook 14267...