LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Susan C. Anderson, Professor of German at the University of Oregon, works on German and Austrian literature from the late 19th- century to the present. Her current research focuses on ideas of difference and identity and on modern reworkings of epic traditions. Recent publications have addressed metaphors of seeing, the figure of the outsider, storytelling and desire, and translation. She is presently completing a book on notions of the foreign in contemporary German narrative and film. Christine Anton is Associate Professor of German and Director of the Language Resource Center at Berry College in Georgia. She has published a number of articles on 19th and 20th-century German literature, including Schiller, Eichendorff, Ebner-Eschenbach, Stifter, Rilke, and Schlink, as well as second language acquisition and teaching methodology. She is the author of Selbstreflexivität der Kunsttheorie in den Künstlernovellen des Realismus (1998). Muriel Cormican is Professor of German at the University of West Georgia. Her articles on Lou Andreas-Salomé’s fictional works, Christa Wolf, and on German film have appeared in such places as The Women in German Yearbook, The German Studies Review, Seminar and The Philological Quarterly. She is the author of the book Women in the Works of Lou Andreas-Salomé: Negotiating Identity (2009). David N. Coury is Associate Professor of Humanistic Studies (German) and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He has published widely on contemporary German literature and cinema as well as on literature and globality. He is the author of The Return of Storytelling in Contemporary German Literature and Film (2004), and co-editor, with Frank Pilipp, of The Works of Peter Handke: International Perspectives (2005). Norgard Klages received her Ph.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1992. She has since taught German at The University of the South, Sewanee, 268 List of Contributors UNC-Chapel Hill where she also directed the undergraduate language program, and Salem College. Her publications and presentations focus on 20th-century women’s literature, second language acquisition and teaching methodologies. She currently teaches at UNCSA. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz is Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In her research she focuses on 19th and 20th-century German and Austrian literature and culture, German- Jewish writing, and Holocaust literature and film. She was the editor of The German Quarterly from 1997 to 2003, and has held offices in major international scholarly associations. Her book publications include Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers (1997), and Verfolgung bis zum Massenmord. Diskurse zum Holocaust in deutscher Sprache (1992), and she edited From Fin-de- Siecle to Theresienstadt: The Works and Life of the Writer Elsa Porges-Bernstein (2007; co-editor Helga W. Kraft), A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti (2004), A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler (2003), Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria (1999), Transforming the Center, Eroding the Margins: Essays on Ethnic and Cultural Boundaries in German-Speaking Countries, (1998; co-editor Renate S. Posthofen), and Insiders and Outsiders. Jewish and Gentile Culture in Germany and Austria (1994). Sabine von Mering is Associate Professor of German and Director of the Center for German and European Studies and chair of the Jewish- German Dialogue group at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. She completed her Staatsexamen at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (1991) and her Ph.D. in German Literature at the University of California Davis (1998). She co-edited Russian-Jewish Emigration after the Cold War: Perspectives from Germany, Israel, Canada, and the United States (2006). Jennifer E. Michaels is Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosenthal Professor of Humanities and Professor of German at Grinnell College in Iowa. She received her M.A. degree in German from Edinburgh University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in German from McGill University in Montreal. She has published four books and numerous articles about 20th-century German and Austrian literature and culture, and has .