Research Overview

Selected Publications

• With Katharina Gerstenberger, editors. German Literature in a New Century: Trends, Traditions, Transitions, Transformations. Berghahn, 2008.
• With Magda Mueller, editors. German Feminist Writings. Continuum, 2001. German Library 95.
• Editor. Selected Prose and Drama. By Ingeborg Bachmann and Christa Wolf, Continuum, 1998. German Library 94.
• With Magda Mueller, editors. Gender and Germanness: Cultural Productions of Nation. Berghahn, 1997. Modern German Studies 4.
• Editor. Frauen im Mittelpunkt: Contemporary German Women Writers. Suhrkamp, 1987. Suhrkamp/Insel Series in German Literature.
• With Peter Uwe Hohendahl, editors. Literatur der DDR in den siebziger Jahren. Suhrkamp, 1983.
• With Peter Uwe Hohendahl, editors. Literatur und Literaturtheorie in der DDR. Suhrkamp, 1976.

Honors and Activities

• Fulbright Summer Seminar in Germany, 2005
• Susan B. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award, 2003
• Editorial Board, "Women in German Yearbook," 2002-present
• President, German Studies Association, 2003-2004
• Editor, "Women in German Yearbook," 1994-2002