Contributors
- Contributors
Paul Buchholz is assistant professor of German at the University of California-Berkeley. He received his PhD from the Department of German Studies at Cornell University in 2010, having earned his BA in German literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005. In the academic year of 2010–11 he was assistant professor / faculty fellow in the German Department at New York University. He is currently finishing work on his first monograph, Private Anarchy: Monologue and Impossible Community in Experimental German Prose, which considers how nihilist, “hyperconscious” monologue became a privileged medium for thinking through the question of social solidarity in the literary works of Gustav Landauer, Franz Kafka, Thomas Bernhard, and Wolfgang Hilbig. His second book project will examine the figuration of landscape in German-language literature of ecological crisis after 1970. His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in TRANSIT and Gegenwartsliteratur: ein germanistisches Jahrbuch.
Andrew Ellis is emeritus professor of psychology at the University of York, UK. He obtained a BA in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1973 and a PhD in psychology from the University of Edinburgh in 1979. His research has mainly been concerned with the psychology and neuroscience of language. He has published over one hundred journal articles and several books, including Reading, Writing, and Dyslexia: A Cognitive Analysis (1984, 1993) and Human Cognitive Neuropsychology (1988, with A. Young). His interest in Freud dates back to an undergraduate course on the history of ideas taught by Professor Robert Young. His recent retirement has given him the opportunity to revive that interest. [End Page xi]
Christian Herbst studied historical and political science at the University of Innsbruck. Since 2009 he has been a researcher at the Jewish Museum in Hohenems, Austria, where his work has primarily been concerned with the genealogy of Hohenems Jews. He became the head of the archive of the Jewish Museum Hohenems in 2011. He is the author of “Die Brüder Daniel und Jakob Biedermann in Meran” in the anthology work Jüdische Lebensgeschichten aus Tirol. Vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart (Innsbruck: Haymon Verlag, 2012).
Stephan Lehnstaedt is professor for Holocaust Studies and Jewish Studies at Touro College Berlin. Recently, he has finished a monograph comparing the imperialism of Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I with that of the Nazis, both on the example of occupied Poland. Lehnstaedt received his PhD in 2008 from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, where he was visiting lecturer from 2008 to 2010. In summer 2013 he was invited as visiting research fellow by the Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut für Kriegsfolgen-Forschung in Graz. At the London School of Economics he was guest teacher 2013 and 2014. Major publications include Okkupation im Osten: Besatzeralltag in Warschau und Minsk 1939–1944 and Geschichte und Gesetzesauslegung: Zu Kontinuität und Wandel des bundesdeutschen Wiedergutmachungsdiskurses am Beispiel der Ghettorenten as well as more than twenty articles in peer-reviewed journals in German, English, Polish, French, and Hebrew.
Oliver Raitmayr is an archaeologist and genealogist who studied Oriental Studies at the University of Innsbruck. His grandfather, Erich Raitmayr, and his great-grandfather, Lambert Raitmayr, were local doctors in Mayrhofen, Austria, who knew Hans and Peppina Zellenka and helped look after Peppina following her release from Theresienstadt. Oliver’s great-aunt Gertrude (Trudl) Raitmayr used to visit the Zellenkas in Vienna in the early 1920s and became friends with Peppina at the time. Erich Raitmayr signed Peppina’s death certificate in January 1949. Many of Peppina’s documents were discovered in Mayrhofen decades after her death. Oliver donated the original documents to the archive of the Jewish Community in Innsbruck (Kultusgemeinde Innsbruck). [End Page xii]
James P. Wilper is an early career researcher based in London. His research interests include literature and culture from the fin de siècle to the present, pre-Stonewall gay and lesbian novels, theory and practice of translation, and film adaptations. Wilper’s first monograph, Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, will be published to Purdue University Press in early 2016. His recent publications include articles in Critical Survey, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, and Adaptation as well as a chapter in Sexology and...
