Professor of German and Comparative Literature

• 19th century novel
• Post 1945 German literature
• Feminist theory (French, German)
• Immigration and nationalisms (German, French)
• Colonialist fiction (British, French)
• Teaching with multimedia (in language and culture courses)
  

• Berlin-Multicultural Metropolis Between East and West (GERM 202)
• From the "Wende" 'til Today in Literature, Films, and Politics (GERM 305)
• Modern Women Writers and the City (COMP 243)
  
• Everyday Life in Literature and Film (COMP 308)
• All levels of German language
  

• M.A. Brown University, 1985
• PhD. Brown University, 1987
• Staatsexamen, Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Germany, 1982
  

• Book review of: Jonsson, Stefan. Robert Musil and the History of Modern Identity. Modern Fiction Studies, 2002.
• Resisting Bodies: The Negotiation of Female Agency in Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction (Wayne State Unviersity Press, 1996)
• "Remembering as Revision: Fictionalizing Nazism in Postwar Germany," MLN 1994
• The Feminization of Dr. Faustus: Female Identity Quests from Stendhal to Morgner (PennState University Press, 1993)
• Queerbeet: An Intermediate German Reader (Peter Lang, 1988)