Contributors
- Contributors
Carola Daffner (PhD, Vanderbilt University, 2007) is assistant professor of German studies and German section head in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. In her writings, Daffner focuses on gender and the politics of space in German and Austrian literature and film. She has published in journals such as German Studies Review, Austrian Studies, and Women in German Yearbook. Daffner’s monograph Gertrud Kolmar: Dichten im Raum, a study of imaginative geographies in Gertrud Kolmar’s poetry, was published in 2012 by Königshausen & Neumann. She is currently coediting a volume on German women writers and the “spatial turn,” which is set to appear as part of De Gruyter’s Intercultural German Studies Series. Her recent projects build on theoretical concepts of space but branch out into the areas of sound studies and surveillance studies.
Ian Thomas Fleishman is currently a college fellow in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He has published in Mosaic, The German Quarterly, and elsewhere on subjects ranging from the Baroque novel to contemporary film.
Primus-Heinz Kucher is professor of German and Austrian Literature at the University of Klagenfurt, where he served as chair until 2012. He has been Max Kade Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Botstiber Visiting Professor with the Austro-American Fulbright Program at the University of Vermont at Burlington. His teaching and research address several topics from the period of early Romanticism to the present time, with attention to travelogues in the nineteenth century, literary and cultural relationships in Central Europe, German-Jewish writing, modernism and the avant garde, and exile and migration studies. He is the author [End Page xi] of Ungleichzeitige/verspätete Moderne (Francke, 2002), the editor of a supplemental volume of the collected works of Charles Sealsfield (2002); of Alfredo Bauer’s dramatic sketches Anders als die anderen. 2000 Jahre jüdisches Schicksal (2004); of Literatur und Kultur im Österreich der Zwanziger Jahre (2007); he is also, more recently, the coeditor of Erste Briefe/First Letters aus dem Exil (2011), “Akustisches Drama”. Radioästhetik, Kultur und Radiopolitik in Österreich (2013). He has also published articles on exiled authors, aspects of fin-de-siècle literature, and memory and Jewish legacy. He is currently preparing a new research project on transdisciplinary aspects of the arts, culture, and literature between the wars and contributing to 1928: Ein Jahr wird besichtigt (2014).
Anita McChesney is assistant professor of German at Texas Tech University. She received her PhD from the Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on contemporary Austrian literature and culture. Her publications include articles on constructions of truth in detective stories by authors from E.T.A. Hoffmann to Peter Handke and on intersections of media, narration, and Austrian history in the novels of Gerhard Roth and Christoph Ransmayr. [End Page xii]
