Historical entry on the Finnish revolution of 1917-1918

Film critique of “Return to Go” (“Zurück auf los”), directed by Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss.

Film critique of “Lola and Billy the Kid” (“Lola und Bilidikid”), directed by Kutlug Ataman.

Biographical entry on Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Biographical entry on Magnus Hirschfeld

A selected survey of gender and sexuality in German-language literature of the long 19th century

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).

This paper explores the sources of Galsan Tschinag’s reception as a cultural mediator, based on post-colonial readings of his German-language writings and statements. Tschinag’s status as shaman, healer and chief within his own people merges with the fact of his literary voice in German. While exoticism might explain part of his appeal, I will…[Read more]