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  • Contributors

Robert E. Alvis (ralvis@saintmeinrad.edu) is Associate Professor of Church History at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology. His research explores the interface of religion, culture, and identity in modern Central Europe. His publications include Religion and the Rise of Nationalism: A Profile of an East-Central European City (Syracuse UP, 2005).

Tobias Boes (tboes@nd.edu) is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Notre Dame, where his research focuses on modernist culture as well as comparative approaches to the history of the novel. His first book, Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman, was published by Cornell University Press in 2012.

Charlie Cahill (ckcahill@wisc.edu) is a dissertator in the Modern European History program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a focus on the intellectual and religious history of the Weimar Republic. He is currently doing research in Germany with a Fulbright Fellowship.

Sebastian Heiduschke (sebastian.heiduschke@oregonstate.edu) is Assistant Professor of German in the School of Language, Culture and Society at Oregon State University. He teaches courses in German Studies and Cinema, has published on DEFA and contemporary German cinema, and is currently completing a monograph about the reception of DEFA film in postunification Germany.

Julian Reidy (Julian.Reidy@unige.ch) studied German and English at the University of Bern where he graduated in 2011 with a doctoral thesis on the subject of Väterliteratur. He then worked and taught as a postdoctoral researcher in Bern and, starting in the fall of 2011, at the University of Geneva.

Maria Stehle (mstehle@utk.edu), Assistant Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, mainly works in the areas of German Cultural and Media Studies. Her monograph, Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German Culture, was published in November 2012. She is currently completing a co-authored study on pop-feminism in twenty-first-century Germany.

Beverly M. Weber (beverly.weber@colorado.edu) is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Recent publications include Violence and Gender in the “New Europe”: Islam in German Culture (Palgrave, Feb. 2013) and several articles on race, gender, and Islam in Europe. [End Page 235]

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