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I graduated from Connecticut
College with a
major in English and minor in German. (Honors in major, Magna cum Laude).
A Fulbright scholarship took me to the University of Vienna
the following year to study Austrian literature. I supplemented my
interest in German literature with German film in graduate school at the University of Rochester. Numerous grants, from
the Austrian Federal Ministry, the DAAD, and the Heinrich-Hertz-Stiftung
for a year of study at the University
of Cologne, helped
me to pursue dissertation research. My interest in autobiography and the Bildungsroman
led to a dissertation called Bodies, Beautiful Souls and Bildung:
Reconstituting the First-Person Singular I, which was supported by
the Susan B. Anthony Dissertation Fellowship.
 Since
arriving at Davidson in 1995, I've taught a variety of beginning,
intermediate and advanced courses in German
literature, film and culture. My publications and
presentations reflect a range of interests in German popular culture,
Germany's memory boom,
the
books and films of Doris Dörrie, filmic adaptation, the current
phenomenon of "Pop" in Germany, and American/Weimar
film actress Louise Brooks.
In
the fall of 2006 I co-organized the annual AATG conference in Nashville. My essay “They Were Threatening Castration,
Man: Germans in The Big Lebowski”
was accepted to The Journal of
Popular Culture. In the
fall of 2005 I was named co-editor of the Women in German Yearbook.
 In
2004 my essay "Putting Stones in Places: Anne Duden and German Acts
of Memory" appeared in the German Quarterly 77 (2) spring
2004. Previous essays have appeared in Camera Obscura, The
Women in German Yearbook and numerous anthologies.
In 2003 a volume co-edited with Randall Halle, Light Motives.
German Popular Cinema in Perspective, was published by Wayne State
UP. It includes my essay "Angst Takes a Holiday
in Doris Dörrie's Bin ich schön." This essay was  recently
republished in Straight through the Heart. Doris Dörrie, German
Filmmaker and Author.
 At
Davidson I have been coordinator for the Gender Studies Concentration as
well as Resident Director for Davidson's Junior Year Abroad in Würzburg,
Germany in 1997-98, 2001-02, and 2002 -03. Lately I have participated in
Davidson's new Film and Media Studies concentration with courses in
Independent Film and Film Adaptation. In December of 2004 I organized Sundav,
a forum for students in my independent film course to showcase their own
films.
I
live with my husband, Joachim Ghislain, and
children, Nicolas and Nola Marlene, in Davidson.
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