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The following books and articles provide a sample of the faculty's current research interests. For more information regarding faculty research interests, please contact the faculty member directly.

Stephan Schindler, Chair
18th and 20th Century German Literature; Film; Gender Studies; Holocaust Studies; Critical Theory
• Eingebildete Körper: Phantasierte Sexualität in der Goethezeit (Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2001)
• The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present, Ed. with Lutz Koepnick (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2007)
Matt Erlin
18th and 19th Century German Literature & Culture; Aesthetic Theory; Philosophies of History; Economics & Literature; Urban culture
• Berlin's Forgotten Future: City, History, and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Germany. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004
• "Useless Subjects: Reading and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century Germany." The German Quarterly 80.2 (2007): 145-64
Jennifer Kapczynski
19th to 21st-century Literature; Film Studies; Gender Theory; Nationalism; German-American Relations
• "Negotiating Nostalgia: The GDR Past in Berlin is in Germany and Goodbye Lenin." Germanic Review (82:1, Winter 2007): 78-100.
• "The Treatment of the Past: Géza von Radványi’s Der Arzt von Stalingrad and the West German War Film." Take Two: Fifties Cinema in Divided Germany. Ed. John Davidson and Sabine Hake (New York: Berghahn, 2007) 137-50.
Lutz Koepnick
19th - 21st Century German literature and culture; Critical Theory and Cultural Studies; Film and Film/Media theory; Intellectual History
• Framing Attention: Windows on Modern German Culture. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
• Window | Interface. Screen Arts and New Media Aesthetics 2. Co-authored with Sabine Eckmann. 2007.
William Layher
Medieval Literature; Manuscript text and image; Old Norse; Heroism and monstrosity; Drama--medieval and modern
• "Starkathr's Teeth." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 108 (2009): 1-26.
• "Horrors of the East: Printing Dracole Wayda in 15th-Century Germany."  Consuming News: Newspapers and Print Culture in Early Modern Germany (1500-1800). Eds. Gerhild Williams and William Layher. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009. 11-32.
Paul Michael Lützeler
German and European Romanticism; Literature and Culture of the 1920s; Exile Literature 1933-45; Contemporary German Literature; Contemporary Discourses in the Humanities
• Kontinentalisierung: Das Europa der Schriftsteller. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2007.
•Bürgerkrieg global. Menschenrechtsethos und deutschsprachiger Gegenwartsroman (2009)
Erin McGlothlin
Postwar and contemporary German and German-Jewish literature; Literature of the Holocaust; Narrative theory; Autobiography; Theater and drama
• Second-Generation Holocaust Literature: Legacies of Survival and Perpetration. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006.
• "Narrative Transgression in Edgar Hilsenrath's Der Nazi und der Friseur and the Rhetoric of the Sacred in Holocaust Discourse." The German Quarterly 80.2 (Spring 2007): 220-239.
Eva-Maria Russo
Foreign Language Pedagogy; 18th Century Literature; Bourgeoise Tragedy; Gender Studies; Love, Violence, Humor
• "Economics and Psychology: The Negation of Masculinity in Keller’s ‘Die drei gerechten Kammacher’." Seminar 44.1.1 (2008): 37-52.
• "Post-War Humor in the Upper-Division Literature Classroom." Die Unterrrichtspraxis 39.1-2 (2006): 55-68.
Lynne Tatlock
History of the novel; Gender Studies and women's writing; Nationalism and regionalism; Book History; reading cultures; Translation and cultural mediation; Literature and society; Literature and medicine
• Meditations on the Incarnation, Suffering, and Dying of Jesus Christ, by Catharina Regina von Greiffenber. Trans. and ed. by Lynne Tatlock. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (Forthcoming 2009).
• "Resonant Violence in Die Innerste and the Rupture of the German Idyll after 1871" In Wilhelm Raake: Global Themes--International Perspectives. Ed. Dirk Göffsche and Florian Krobb. Oxford: Legenda, 2009.
SARAH WESTPHAL-WIHL
Legal Contexts of Medieval German Narrative; Women and the Culture of the Medieval Book; Kunigunde of Bavaria (+1520) and Female Biography in the Early Modern Period; Gender in German Medieval Court Culture; Communities of Traditional Catholic Piety in the Age of Enlightenment
• Ladies, Harlots, and Pious Women: A Source Book in Courtly, Religious, and Urban Cultures of Late Medieval Germany. Preface, Introductions, Translations, and Notes by Ann-Marie Rasmussen and Sarah Westphal-Wihl. TEAMS Series: Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications/Western Michigan University (forthcoming in 2010).
• “Minne unde reht tuon: Konfliktlösung am Königshof in Konrads Schwanritter und Hartmanns Iwein.” In Blutige Worte: Internationales und interdisziplinäres Kolloquium zum Verhältnis von Sprache und Gewalt im Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Ed. Jutta Eming and Claudia Jarzebowski. Berliner Mittelalter- und Frühneuzeitforschung 4. Göttingen: V & R Unipress, 2008, 1633-186. ISBN 978-3-89971-400-5
Gerhild Williams
Early Modern German and French Literature; Volksbuch; Travel narratives; Reformation movements; Magic/ Daemonlogies/ witch theory; Translation theory and practice
• Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany: Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to His Time. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.
• On the Inconstancy of Witches: Pierre de Lancre’s Tableau de l’inconstance des mauvais anges et Demons (1612). Trans. Harriet Stone and Gerhild Scholz Williams. Tempe: Arizona Center for Texts and Studies, 2006.

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