Contributors
- Contributors
Anke S. Biendarra studied at the U of Münster and completed her PhD at the U of Washington. She is currently an assistant professor of German and a core faculty member in European Studies at the U of California, Irvine. Her research and teaching interests concern the literature and culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with emphases on post-GDR/unification literature, globalization, transnationalism, and popular culture. She has published on aspects of identity, gender, and commitment in the works of Kafka, Kracht, Hermann, Röggla, and others; on effects of globalization in literature and film; and on pop literature. Her most recent publications include “Transnational Traumas: Terézia Mora’s Alle Tage,” Emerging German-Language Writers: Novelists of the Twenty-First Century (ed. Lyn Marven and Stuart Taberner, Camden House, 2011) and “Prekäre neue Arbeitswelt: Narrative der New Economy,” Das erste Jahrzehnt: Narrative und Poetiken des 21. Jahrhunderts (ed. Johanna Bohley and Julia Schoell, Königshausen and Neumann, forthcoming). She is currently completing a monograph, Germans Going Global: Contemporary Literature and Globalization.
David N. Coury (PhD, U of Cincinnati) is associate professor of Humanistic Studies (German) and Global Studies at the U of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where he is currently Chair of Humanistic Studies. He is the author of The Return of Storytelling in Contemporary German Literature and Film: Peter Handke and Wim Wenders (2004) as well as co-editor of The Works of Peter Handke: International Perspectives (2007). He has published several articles on contemporary German literature and cinema, particular regarding the effects of globalization on cultural production.
Helga Druxes (PhD, Brown U) is professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Williams College. Her current research includes contemporary narratives of labour migration, Herta Müller’s novels, and Germany’s “Autonomous Nationalists,” a new group of radical Neo-Nazis. She has published two books – The Feminization of Dr. Faustus: Female Identity Quests from Stendhal to Morgner (Penn State UP, 1993) and Resisting Bodies: The Negotiation of Female Agency in Twentieth-Century Women Writers (Wayne State UP, 1996) – and her articles include “Remembering as Revision: Fictionalizing Nazism in Postwar Germany” (Modern Language Studies, 1994) and “The Migrant’s Body: Publicity and the Abject in Contemporary Documentaries” (International Journal of the Humanities, forthcoming).
Jaimey Fisher (PhD, Cornell) is associate professor of German at U California, Davis, where his primary research and teaching interests include film and media studies, German literature, and intellectual history. He is the author of Disciplining Germany: Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction after the Second World War (Wayne State UP, 2007) and is coeditor of Critical Theory: Current State and Future Prospects (Berghahn, 2001). He is currently coediting Collapse of the Conventional: German Cinema and its Politics at the Turn of the New Century. He has also published numerous articles and book chapters, and is currently working on a project about contemporary German cinema and on a study of German war films from the first half of the twentieth century.
Martin Kley (PhD, U Texas) is an assistant professor of German at Gettysburg College. His teaching and research focusses on Film Studies as well as the History and Theory of Labour. He has recently published an article on Weimar communist culture (“Industrieliteratur Reconsidered: Weimar Communists on Labor and Rationalization,” Focus on German Studies 2008) and a book-length study on Weimar communism and anarchism is currently under review. This article is part of a larger project on changing conceptions of work in postunification Germany in various media (literature, film, and television). [End Page 537]
Sonja Klocke (PhD, Indiana U) is assistant professor of German at Knox College, Illinois. Her research interests focus on literature and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first century, particularly women’s writing, East German literature and film, contemporary writing on modern exile, migration and globalization, and discourses on illness and the body. She is currently working on a book entitled “Inscriptions and Rebellions: The Female Body in Representations of the GDR from the 1960s to the Present” and has most recently published on transnational literature, globalization, GDR literature, and literature of the “Wende.”
Nikhil Sathe (PhD, Ohio State U) is an associate professor of German at Ohio...
