andererseits - Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies

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andererseits seeks to provide a forum for unique and exciting research and reflections on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. Works presented in the publication come from a wide variety of genres including book reviews, poetry, essays, editorials, forum discussions, academic notes, lectures, and traditional peer-reviewed academic articles. In addition, contributions by journalists, librarians, archivists, and other commentators interested in German Studies broadly conceived. By publishing such a diverse array of material, we hope to demonstrate the extraordinary value of the humanities in general, and German Studies in particular, on a variety of intellectual and cultural levels. Contributors to this volume: Hugh Ridley, Steffen Kaup, Vera B. Profit, Bernhard Fischer, Gertrud Rösch, Rüdiger Görner, Spencer Hawkins, Yvonne Delhey, Andreas Erb, Peter Stamm.

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William Collins Donahue (Prof. Dr.) teaches courses in the humanities, on German literature and film, and on European studies at University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. Georg Mein (Prof. Dr.) teaches in the fields of contemporary German literary studies, cultural and media studies at Université du Luxembourg. Rolf Parr (Prof. Dr.), born in 1956, is a professor of German Literature and Media Studies at Universität Duisburg-Essen. He is a member of the extended coordination circle of the Competence Field Metropolitan Research in the University Alliance Ruhr (KoMet). His research areas include literature, media and cultural theory/history of the 18th to 21st centuries, discourse theory and research on normalism, collective symbols, literature/media relations, television, medial representations of work, urban and metropolitan research.

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