Ph.D. Germanic Studies, University of Chicago (2000)
Teaching and Research Interests
German language and the literatures and cultures of German speaking countries
Berlin in film and literature
Film history and contemporary German film
Literature, film, and fashion of the Weimar Republic
Visual culture of the Cold War
Aesthetics
Consumerism
Mass Culture
Courses Taught
GER 201 - Second Year German I
GER 202 - Second Year German II
GER 252 - The German-Jewish Experience (MPF)
GER/FST 261 - German Film in Global Context (MPF –Global)
GER 311 - Passionate Friendships (course in German literature and culture)
GER 312 - Coming of Age in German Culture (course in German literature and culture)
GER 410E - Berlin in Film and Literature (advanced seminar for students in German)
GER 410F - Culture in Weimar Germany (advanced seminar for students in German)
Selected Publications
Books
Film and Fashion Amidst the Ruins of Berlin: Between Nazism and Cold War, 1945-1953.Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018. Pp. 256
Women in Weimar Fashion: Discourses and Displays inGerman Culture (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2008)
Articles
“Cabaret in Transition: Ilse Bois’ Parodies Between the Times and Between the Genres,” Modernity in Transition, ed. Deborah Barnstone and Donna Brett (London: Bloomsbury, 2025) 199-218
“Fashion for a Global Audience: 1920s Glamour and Grit,” ‘Babylon Berlin’: German Visual Spectacle and Global Media Culture, ed. Hester Baer and Jill Suzanne Smith (London: Bloomsbury, 2024) 58-76.
“Between the Studio and the Stage: Elli Marcus’s Portrait, Fashion and Theater Photography,” FOTOGESCHICHTE, Special issue on Studio Photography, ed. Anne Vitten, No. 170, 2023, 22-32.
“Kleider machen Filme. Die Kostümabteilung der Ufa 1938–1945,“Ufa International: Ein deutscher Konzern mit globalen Ambitionen,ed. Philipp Stiasny, Jürgen Kasten, and Frederik Lang (Munich: edition text + kritik, 2021) 353-366.
“Making the New Woman: Female Fashion Photographers in Berlin between the Wars,”Women Behind the Camera, ed. Andrea Nelson (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 2020), 181-212.
“Berlin Babylon: Costumes and Set Designs,” Forum onBabylon Berlin: Media, Spectacle, and History, edited by Veronika Fuechtner and Paul Lerner.Central European History, 53 (2020) 834-854.
“Fashion für Fräuleins: Mode im Nachkriegsberlin,“Berliner Geschichte. Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur, Nr. 23 (September 2020), 40-49.
“Jewish Comedians Beyond Lubitsch. Siegfried Arno in Film and Cabaret.”Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema, ed. Valerie Weinstein and Barbara Hales (New York: Berghahn, 2020) 88-110.
“‘Stoffe über die Luftbrücke’: Film und Mode trotz der Blockade.” InDie Berliner Luftbrücke: Erinnerungsort des Kalten Krieges, edited by Corinne Defrance, Bettina Greiner, and Ulrich Pfeil, 253–70. Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag, 2018.
“Vicarious Consumption: Fashion and Fashion Media in Germany during the War Years 1939-1943,”The Consumer on the Home Front:Second World War Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective, ed. Felix Römer, Jan Logermann, and Hartmut Berghoff (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) 199-221.
