The Reality of the Body: Transgender, Transsexuality, and Truth in “Romeos”

Coming Out of the Iron Closet: Contradiction in East German Gay History and Film

This essay focuses on advanced-level German instruction and advocates an open, flexible approach to integrating the recommendations of the much-discussed 2007 MLA report on “Foreign Languages and Higher Education.” Specifically, language, literature, film, and cultural studies are combined to allow for the development of transcultural com…[Read more]

Critical essay on two films: “Ludwig van Beethoven” (1954) and “Beethoven – Tage aus einem Leben” (1976). Released with the DVD “A Beethoven Duet” by the DEFA Film Library.

Review of Martin Blawid, Von Kraftmenschen und Schwächlingen: Literarische Männlichkeitsentwürfe bei Lessing, Goethe und Mozart

“The Curious Case of the Turkish Drag Queen: Film and Social Justice Education in Advanced German”

Review of Barbara Mennel. The Representation of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. In Women in German Newsletter 108 (2008).