Herta Müller: Politics and Aesthetics

Contributors

Contributors Paola Bozzi is a professor of German studies at the University of Milan. She received her PhD in modern German literature at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1996. Her dissertation has been published as Ästhetik des Leidens: Zum Werk Thomas Bernhards (1997). Her research interests and publications include German literary and cultural studies of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, modernity and postmodernity, philosophy and literature, gender studies, media aesthetics, and culture. She has written a monograph (Der fremde Blick: Zum Werk Herta Müllers, 2005) as well as articles on Herta Müller’s work. Her recent books include Vilém Flusser. Dal soggetto al progetto: Libertà e cultura dei media (2007) and “Durch fabelhaftes Denken”: Evolution, Gedankenexperiment, Science und Fiction. Vilém Flusser, Louis Bec und der Vampyroteuthis infernalis (2008). BettinaBrandtgrew up in Germany, the Netherlands, and French-speaking Belgium. She received MA degrees in French and German from the University of Utrecht and a PhD in comparative literature from Harvard University. Brandt taught at MIT, Columbia University, and Montclair State before joining the faculty of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include literatures and theories of the avant-garde(s); the literatures of migration; literary multilingualism and translation studies; gender studies; and global early modern relations. She has published articles 280 Contributors or book chapters on the above topics and is currently completing a booklength study about the intersection of migration and avant-garde in the works of Herta Müller, Emine Özdamar, and Yoko Tawada. Her latest book publication (with Désirée Schyns) is a Dutch translation of a collection of writings by Yoko Tawada: De Berghollander: Teksten van een Japanse in Duitsland (Voetnoot, 2010). Beverley Driver Eddy is a professor emerita of German at Dickinson College. Many of her publications are in the area of German-Scandinavian literary relations; she has also edited a volume of essays on the Austrian poet Evelyn Schlag and published biographies of the Danish feminist writer Karin Michaëlis and Felix Salten, the author of Bambi. She has published interviews with, and articles on, Herta Müller. Valentina Glajar is a professor of German at Texas State University–San Marcos. She is the author of The German Legacy in East Central Europe (Camden House, 2004); (with Domnica Radulescu) “Gypsies” in European Literature and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); and Vampirettes, Wretches, and Amazons: Western Representations of East European Women (East European Monographs, 2004). Glajar has also cotranslated (with André Lefevere) Herta Müller’s Traveling on One Leg (Northwestern University Press, 1998, 2010). Her latest book (with Jeanine Teodorescu) is Local History: Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Currently she is working on a monograph on GermanRomanian writers and the secret police. Brigid Haines is a reader in German at Swansea University, Wales. She specializes in German women’s writing and the “eastern turn” in contemporary German culture. Her books include Herta Müller (University of Wales Press, 1998); (with Margaret Littler) Contemporary Women’s Writing in German: Changing the Subject (Oxford University Press, 2004); (with Lyn Marven) Libuše Moníková in Memoriam (Rodopi, 2005); and (with Lyn Marven) Herta Müller (Oxford University Press, 2013). She is a founding member of Women in German Studies (WIGS). Anja Johannsen studied German literature and philosophy in Berlin; Providence, Rhode Island; and Freiburg. She is the author of Kisten, Contributors 281 Krypten, Labyrinthe: Raumfigurationen in der Gegenwartsliteratur: W. G. Sebald, Anne Duden, Herta Müller (Transcript, 2008) and has published broadly on contemporary German literature and the literary industry. Since 2010 she has been the director of the Literarisches Zentrum Göttingen , a cultural institute in Lower Saxony, Germany. Monika Moyrer received her PhD from the University of Minnesota. She has published on Herta Müller, the FrauenMediaTurm Köln, and Robert K. Eissler’s Psychoanalytic Goethe study. Currently she teaches German in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Scranton. Katrina Nousek is a PhD candidate in the Department of German Studies at Cornell University. Her interests include contemporary Germanlanguage literature, historiography, and epistemology. In 2009 she was the second-place recipient of the Cornell University Goethe Essay Prize for a comparative work on Bertolt Brecht and Lázló Moholy-Nagy’s theories of perception. Her recent activities include presentations at the University of Pennsylvania and the German Studies Association...