FACULTY 
Alexandra Hill
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
Areas of Expertise and Interest
- Contemporary German Literature
- The German Short Story
- Culture and Literature of East Germany
- Women’s Literature and Literature by Women
- Twentieth Century German Art
Courses Taught (GERM)
- GERM 111 (F) – 112 (S) Reading German for Beginners
- GERM 201 (F) Advanced German
- GERM 202 (S) Voices from the Edge: Multiculturalism in Contemporary Germany
- GERM 225 (F) Wise Lady or Witchy Woman? The History of Witches
Education
- B.A., Vassar College, 2001
- M.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005
- Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, expected Feb. 2009, “Maternal Drag: Identity, Motherhood, and Performativity in the Works of Julia Franck”
Conference Presentations
- “Das Mutti-Prinzip: Representations of Motherhood in Current German Literature by Women.” German Studies Association. St. Paul, MN. 3-5 October 2008.
- “The Political Becomes Physical: Politics as Trauma in the Works of Duve and Parei.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Buffalo, NY. 10-13 April 2008.
- “The East-West Divide in Contemporary Literature and the Foreign Language Classroom.” Nach der dritten Stunde Null: Deutsche Gegenwartsliteraturen. Williams College. Williamstown, MA. 27-28 April 2007.
- “For the Love of the Family: Intimacy and Familial Bonding in Julia Franck’s Bauchlandung.” Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA. 27-30 December 2006.
- “’Female Sobriety’: Feminism, Motherhood, and the Works of Julia Franck.” Women in German Yearbook. 24 (2008).
- Translation: Franck, Julia. “The Miracle (of) Woman.” Women in German Yearbook 24 (2008).
- “The Art of Conspiracy: Magnus von Plessen and the Frustrated Gaze.” From Weimar to Christiania: German and Scandinavian Studies in Context. Eds. Florence Feiereisen and Kyle Frackman. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.
