Contributors
carl niekerk (niekerk@illinois.edu) is a professor of German, comparative and world literature, and Jewish studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Reading Mahler (2010/13) and, with Caroline Kita and Francien Markx, the co-editor of "Music and German Culture" (German Quarterly 91, no. 4, 2018).
hilla lavie (hillalavie@gmail.com) is a cultural historian and a documentary filmmaker with a primary interest in late modern German history and film history. Currently, she is a postdoctoral fellow at the Koebner Minerva Center for German History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
patricia melzer (patricia.melzer@temple.edu) is an associate professor in German and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at Temple University. Her research interest is gender and political violence in the context of German left-wing radical politics. She is the author of Death in the Shape of a Young Girl: Women's Political Violence in the Red Army Faction (2015).
lukas dovern (dovern@histosem.uni-kiel.de) completed his PhD at Stanford University in 2019. He now teaches eastern European history as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Kiel, Germany. His research is broadly concerned with the question of how globalization has affected central Europe since the Second World War.
armin langer, (mail@arminlanger.net) holds a PhD in sociology from the Humboldt University of Berlin and was ordained as a rabbi at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia. Since 2019, he has been a visiting research scholar at Brandeis University's Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. He has published two monographs, an edited volume, and over a dozen articles on modern Jewish history, migration, and integration in Germany and the US.
katrina l. nousek (knousek@richmond.edu) is a visiting assistant professor of German studies at the University of Richmond. She holds a PhD from Cornell University and is currently working on No Time for the Future, a book that analyzes futurity in literary migration narratives at the intersection of postsocialism and globalization.
thomas o. haakenson (thaakenson@cca.edu) is an associate professor at California College of the Arts and a visiting faculty member at Philippine Women's University. His recent Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada (2021) examines avant-garde interventions that have challenged the questionable practices and evidentiary claims of science. His current projects include Decolonizing the European Avant-Garde as well as Dada Studies as Countercultural Practice. [End Page 405]
