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Jennifer Barker is assistant professor of English and film at East Tennessee State University, where she also directs the film studies program. Her research interests are transnational and interdisciplinary in nature, and her publications include articles on film and antifascism in Literature/ Film Quarterly and on African Americans and film in the Journal of African American Studies and African Americans in Cinema: The First Half Century. She is currently revising a book manuscript about the legacies of antifascist filmmaking, titled “Radical Projection: The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film,” and coediting a special issue of Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Leena Eilittä is docent of comparative literature at the University of Helsinki. She defended her doctoral thesis about Franz Kafka at the University of Oxford in 1998. She has been a visiting scholar and lecturer at the universities of Leipzig (2004), Zurich (2004, 2006, 2009), Mainz (2007–present), and Poitiers (2009). Her book publications include Approaches to Personal Identity in Kafka’s Short Fiction: Freud, Darwin, Kierkegaard (1998) and Ingeborg Bachmann’s Utopia and Disillusionment (2008). In addition, she has written several articles, reviews, and conference papers about German and comparative literature. She is the elected board member of the International Federation of Modern Languages and Literatures.
Christine Fritze is a graduate student at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. She completed her undergraduate degree in history and Germanic studies in the spring of 2010, and is currently working on a master’s degree in dispute resolution. She was born and raised in Konstanz, Germany, and her passion remains with the study of German literature and the cultural and social issues facing German-speaking [End Page 200] countries. Fritze has received several academic prizes, including the Irving K. Barber British Columbia Scholarship and the Undergraduate Research Scholarship for Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria for 2009–2010.
Katharina Gerstenberger is a professor of German and department head 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). She has published 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, German Quarterly, and Gegenwartsliteratur, and in several anthologies, including Recasting German Identity (2002), German Literature in the Age of Globalization (2004), and Spatial Turns: Space, Place, and Mobility in German Literary and Visual Culture (2010). Together with Patricia Herminghouse she coedited German Literature in a New Century: Trends, Traditions, Transformations, Transitions (2008).
John M. Jeep studied in St. Louis, Münster, Sevilla, and Chicago before accepting a position at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he is currently professor of German and director of the linguistics program. His research includes medieval German philology, rhetorics, women’s studies, and phraseology. He teaches medieval German, German-Jewish studies, linguistics, all levels of German, and directs Miami’s Intensive German Summer Program. He edited Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia (2001). Three monographs deal with medieval German alliterating word pairs. Jeep also coedited a collection of pre-Lutheran Bible translations (with Jochen Splett). He is former director of medieval studies at Miami University and served as associate director of liberal education.
Sonja Klocke is an assistant professor of German at Knox College in Illinois. Her research interests focus on literature and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, women’s writing, postcolonial literature, contemporary writing on modern exile and migration, and discourses on illness and the body. She is currently working on a book that carries forward her dissertation, “Heroines of a Different Kind: Reading Illness and the Fantastic in Depictions of the GDR from the 1960s to the Present” [End Page 201] (Indiana University, 2007). Recently, she has published on transnational literature, globalization, GDR literature, and literature of the “Wende.”
Erika M. Nelson is currently an assistant professor at Union College, where she teaches courses in German language, literature, and culture. Her doctoral research, completed at the University of Texas at Austin, focused on issues of identity construction and sound in Rainer...
