Contributors
- Contributors
Martin Blawid is currently teaching German and Italian language and literature in Freigericht, Hessen. His doctoral work at the University of Leipzig focussed on a comparative analysis of the representation of masculinity in eighteenth-century German and Italian literature. He has been a DAAD lecturer at the Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Sardinia, and at the University of Leipzig. His habilitation project combines literature and didactics to examine innovative and challenging ways of literature teaching at secondary school level.
Helen Chambers is emeritus professor of German at the University of St Andrews (UK). She has published widely on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German literature, particularly on Theodor Fontane, Joseph Roth, and women’s writing. Her recent publications include Theodor Fontane im Spiegel der Kritik (2003); Humor and Irony in Nineteenth-Century German Women’s Writing: Studies in Prose Fiction 1840–1900 (2007); together with Hugh Rorrison she has translated Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest (1995) and Unwiederbringlich (as No Way Back, 2010). She is general editor of the series Cultural Identity Studies for Peter Lang.
Alan Corkhill holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and is an associate professor/reader in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. He is a long-standing associate editor of Seminar and an accredited translator. He was a DFG visiting professor in the Institute of Comparative Literature, The University of Essen, in 1999/2000. He has published extensively on the interfaces between fiction and philosophical thinking in German letters since the Enlightenment and on German-Australian relations. His monographs include: Glückskonzeptionen im deutschen Roman von Wielands “Agathon” bis Goethes “Wahlverwandtschaften” (2003); Queensland and Germany: Ethnic, Socio-Cultural, Political and Trade Relations 1838–1991 (1992); Antipodean Encounters: Australia and the German Literary Imagination 1754–1918 (1990); The Motif of Fate in the Works of Ludwig Tieck (1978). He is currently completing a book on happiness discourse in the twentieth-century German novel.
Anja Gerigk is an assistant lecturer in German Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich. She received her PhD from the University of Bamberg with a thesis on Foucault’s methodology, published as Das Verhältnis ethischer und ästhetischer Rede über Literatur (2006). She completed a theoretical study on Literarische Hochkomik in der Moderne (2008) and recently edited Glück paradox (2010). Her articles focus on phenomena of narrative modernity and issues of cultural theory. Currently, she is working on a history of intermediality between literature and architecture.
Hans Hahn is emeritus professor at Oxford Brookes University (UK). His research interests are the romantic period, Biedermeier, and Vormärz, Keller, and Freytag, but he has also contributed to the contemporary scene in Germany. Book publications: German Thought and Culture (1995); German Education and Society (1997); The 1848 Revolutions in German-Speaking Countries (2001); editor of Germany in the 1980s, with Eva Kolinsky (1989); Germany in the 1990s (special issue of German Monitor, 1995); and Gottfried Keller, Die Leute von Seldwyla, New Interpretations/Neue Interpretationen, with Uwe Seja (2007).
Katharina von Hammerstein (PhD UCLA) is full professor at the University of Connecticut. Her book and article publications deal with feminist analyses of German women’s self-inscriptions into literary, social, and political discourses around 1800 (for example, her 1994 monograph, 1997 edition, and 2008 anthology, with K. Horn, of Sophie Mereau); New Historicist approaches to German romanticism (Hölderlin); interdisciplinary readings of women’s self-(re)presentations as political practice in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century public [End Page 300] discourses (Louise Aston, Hedwig Dohm, Franziska zu Reventlow); postcolonial approaches to representations of Africa(ns) in Austrian and German literature around 1900 (her 2007 edition of Peter Altenberg’s Ashantee, and editions of works by Frieda von Bülow in 2008 and 2010).
Lucia Lauková has studied German language and literature and classical philology in Bratislava (Slovakia), Heidelberg, and Vienna. She is currently working on her PhD dissertation at Comenius University in Bratislava, focussing on Caroline Pichler. Her research interests in-clude gender studies, forgotten women writers of the nineteenth century, and the strategies and (im)possibilities of feminine writing.
Gabriele Pendorf is completing her PhD at the University...
