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Liesl Allingham received her PhD from Indiana University in Bloomington and is an assistant professor of German at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). Her research focus is on gender in the eighteenth century, and her current book project examines gender passing as a spatial practice around 1800.
Carola Daffner is an assistant professor of German studies on the faculty of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. After studying English and German at the University of Regensburg, she completed her PhD at Vanderbilt University in 2007. Her work focuses on the so-called spatial turn in German literature, with a special emphasis on German Jewish women writers. Further research interests include early-twentieth-century German literature, German Jewish relations, and film in the Third Reich. She is currently completing a manuscript in which she explores imaginative geographies in the poetry of Gertrud Kolmar.
Sofie Decock is assistant professor in the German Department of Ghent University. She received her PhD in October 2009. Before her tenure at Ghent University, she was a fellow at the University of Basel and a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the German Department of Georgetown University. Her publications include: Papierfähnchen auf einer imaginären Weltkarte: Mythische Topo- und Tempografien in den Asien- und Afrikaschriften Annemarie Schwarzenbachs (2010) and inside out: Textorientierte Erkundungen des Werks von Annemarie Schwarzenbach (2008, as coeditor), as well as the editions of Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s last novel, Das Wunder des Baums (2011, as coeditor), and of her other travel texts written in 1941 and 1942 (2012, as coeditor, in progress). In addition, Decock has published articles in journals and anthologies on Schwarzenbach’s travel writings. [End Page 200]
Amy Emm is an assistant professor of German at The Citadel. She has published on deconstructions of dramatic form in plays by Heinrich von Kleist and Zacharias Werner. Her current research explores the intersections of music, gender, violence, and the ideal in Kleist’s works and his reception in music.
Alison Guenther-Pal is assistant professor of German studies and film studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Previously a postdoctoral fellow in liberal arts and sciences at Lawrence, she is currently acting chair of German studies and film studies, with an additional affiliation in gender studies. Guenther-Pal coedited, with Rick McCormick, the historical sourcebook German Essays on Film (2004) and has published on homosexuality, masculinity, and 1950s film in West Germany as well as on queer German cinema.
Alice A. Kuzniar is professor of German and English at the University of Waterloo. She is author of Delayed Endings: Nonclosure in Novalis and Hölderlin (1987), The Queer German Cinema (2000), and Melancholia’s Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship (2006). She also edited Outing Goethe and His Age (1996). Before moving back to Canada she taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with guest professorships at Princeton, Rutgers, and the University of Minnesota. She is currently working on a book on homeopathy and its intellectual ties to German romanticism.
Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger is professor of German and women and gender studies at Lafayette College and director of the Max Kade Center for German studies. Since 2001 she has served as the general editor of the Austrian Culture series at Peter Lang Publishing. She is a founding member of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Organization and has published on contemporary Austrian literature and film. Some coedited books are Staging EXPORT: VALIE zu Ehren (2010), Elfriede Jelinek: Writing Woman, Nation, and Identity (2007), and Post-War Austrian Theater: Text and Performance (2002).
Ingrid Sharp is director of German, Russian and Slavonic studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds, UK. She has published several articles and chapters on aspects of gender relations in German history and is coeditor with Alison Fell of The Women’s [End Page 201] Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914–1919 (2007) and with Matthew Stibbe of Aftermaths of War: Women’s Movements and Female Activists, 1918–1923 (2011). She is currently working with a network of scholars to explore gendered approaches to cultural demobilization in the aftermath of conflict.
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