About the Contributors

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Hilary Brown is a research student at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, in England. She is currently writing a dissertation on Benedikte Naubert and her relations to English culture. Her research interests include German women writers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and Anglo-German literary relations. She has published articles in the Journal of English and Germanic Philology (October 2001) and the Modern Language Review (July 2002). Jeanette Clausen is Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs and Professor of German at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. She received her doctorate in Germanic Linguistics from Indiana University in 1975. Her most recent publication is the translation of Irmtraud Morgner's The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura: A Novel in Thirteen Books and Seven Intermezzos (U of Nebraska P, 2000). Ruth P. Dawson, Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is grateful to the Stiftung Weimarer Klassik for the opportunity to study eighteenth-century German representations of Catherine the Great at the Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar. Her book, The Contested Quill: Literature by Women in Germany 1770-1880, appeared in 2002 in the University of Delaware Press. Lilian Faschinger was born in Carinthia, Austria. From 1975 to 1992, she worked as a part-time lecturer at Graz University, from which she earned her PhD in English literature. Since then she has been a freelance writer. Since 1983, she has published four novels, two volumes of short stories, and two volumes of poetry, in addition to writing several radio plays and dramas. Widely traveled, including several stints as writer-inresidence at US colleges and universities, she now lives in Vienna. Patricia Herminghouse is Fuchs Professor emerita of German Studies at the University of Rochester. She has written widely on nineteenthand twentieth-century German literature, the social contexts of women's Women in German Yearbook 18 (2002) 268About the Authors writing, and German émigrés in nineteenth-century America. Editor of the textbook anthology Frauen im Mittelpunkt and a series of writings by nineteenth-century German political émigrés in the US, she also coedited two volumes on GDR literature and, more recently, Gender and Germanness : Cultural Constructions of Nation (1998) as well as an anthology of German Feminist Writings from the seventeenth century to the present (2001). Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres is Professor of German and Women's Studies in the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch at the University of Minnesota. Her research has focused on the social and literary history of German women from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, on feminist theorizing, and increasingly on the role of personal narratives and the personal in academic writing. Her most recent book is Respectability and Deviance: Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers and the Ambiguity ofRepresentation. She is presently at work on a volume of autobiographical and theoretical essays exploring the interrelationships between developments in the fields of German Studies and feminist inquiry. Ellie Kennedy is a PhD candidate candidate in the Department of German, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, where she is writing a dissertation entitled "Genre Trouble: The Performative Picaresque and Female Identity in Contemporary Women's Narrative." She has published articles on Goethe's Werther and on Lilian Faschinger's Magdalena Sünderin. She has also written about graduate student activism in Canada for both web and print journals. Barbara Kosta is Associate Professor in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona, where she teaches courses on German cinema and twentieth-century German literature and popular culture. She is the author oí Recasting Autobiography: Women's Counterfictions in Contemporary German Literature and Film (Cornell UP, 1994) and has published on twentieth-century German women writers (Fleisser, Jelinek, Keun, Mitgutsch) and on German cinema. She is currently working on a book on Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel and coediting a collection of articles on gender and nation. Judith E. Martin is Assistant Professor of German at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield. She received her PhD in German and Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis in 1999, with a dissertation on Madame de Staël's...