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brigetta (britt) abel (ba, Cornell University; ma and PhD, University of Minnesota) has taught at Macalester College since 2000. She teaches language and culture courses, has directed the study abroad program in Vienna, and has developed advanced seminars, including “Sex and the (German) City” and the ever-popular “Vampires: From Monsters to Superheroes.” Her main research interests include exile literature and film, the pedagogy of writing, and the use of technology in language instruction. She became a member of the Coalition of Women in German in 1992 and currently serves on its steering committee.
elizabeth ametsbichler is professor of German and co-chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Montana. She served as book-review editor for the German Studies Review from 2004 to 2011 and was a member of the founding executive committee of the Austrian Studies Association (former malca). Her research interests include nineteenth-century women’s literature, nineteenth-century drama, and fin de siècle Vienna. She coedited Women Writers in German-Speaking Countries (1998), translated Hedwig Dohm’s Werde, die du bist (2005), and wrote articles on Arthur Schnitzler, Werner Schwab, and Elsa Bernstein. She received the University of Montana’s Distinguished Service to International Education Award in 2014.
hester baer is associate professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland, where she holds the Clara and Robert Vambery Distinguished Professorship in Comparative Studies in 2014–15. She is the author of Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language (2009) and the coeditor, with Alexandra M. Hill, of German Women’s Writing in the Twenty-First Century, to be published in 2015. She is currently [End Page 238] working on a new book, The German Cinema of Neoliberalism. From 2010 to 2014, Baer served as vice president and president of the Coalition of Women in German.
sebastian heiduschke is associate professor in the School of Language, Culture, and Society and affiliate faculty in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University, where he teaches courses in film studies, German, and women, gender, and sexuality. He is the author of East German Cinema: defa and Film History (2013) and the coeditor (with Seán Allan) of Re-imagining defa: East German Cinema in Its National and Transnational Context (forthcoming 2015). Recent essays on film appeared in A New History of German Cinema, German Studies Review, In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000, Monatshefte, and Seminar.
alexandra m. hill is assistant professor of German and codirector of the gender and women’s studies minor at the University of Portland. Her research focuses on contemporary German-language literature by women, and her publications include Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century: An Introduction (2012), coedited with Florence Feiereisen, and Playing House: Motherhood, Intimacy, and Domestic Spaces in Julia Franck’s Fiction (2012). Hill is currently coediting with Hester Baer a collection of articles on German women writers, to be published with Camden House. A member of Women in German since graduate school, Hill is web editor and book-review editor for the Women in German Newsletter.
lisabeth hock is associate professor of German in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Wayne State University. She has published on Bettina von Arnim, Gabriele Reuter, Franziska zu Reventlow, and Wilhelmine von Hillern. She received the Women in German Best Article Prize for her 2011 article “Women and Melancholy in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry.” She teaches a wide range of courses from beginning language to seminars on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to courses in gender, sexuality, and women’s studies. She is a recipient of the Wayne State University President’s Award for excellence in teaching.
britta kallin (PhD, University of Cincinnati) is associate professor of German at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Her research [End Page 239] interests lie in the fields of twentieth-and twenty-first-century German and Austrian literature, culture, and film with a special focus on gender, nation, race, and ethnicity in theater and performance. In The Presentation of Racism in Contemporary German and...
