Contributors

Jonathan Jones holds Masters degrees in Film Studies and German Literature and is currently pursuing his doctorate in the Department of Germanic Languages at UCLA, where he focuses on German Cinema.

Austin Payne is a first-year graduate student in the Department of Germanic Languages at UCLA. His research interests are in the field of Germanic linguistics.

Jared Poley completed a dissertation on the issue of German colonial loss through the History Department at UCLA in 2001. He will be teaching at Georgia State University starting in the fall of 2002.

Renata Schellenberg is a PhD Candidate with the German Department at the University of Toronto. In 2002/03 she will be working as a Lecturer with the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. Her research interests are primarily focused on science in the 19th century, and she has done extensive work on Goethe's Farbenlehre as part of her dissertation. In addition to German studies, she also take a keen interest in Croatian Literature.

Clemens Stepina studied theatre, philosophy and history at the university of Vienna. His 1995 dissertation focused on social and asthetic theories in marxism. Since 1997 he works at the institute for theatre, film, and media science and at the center for social and cultural philosophy. His main fields of interest are social philosophy and the philosophy of art as well as the methodology of theare science.

Karin Tebben studied German studies, religion, and fine arts. Her PhD thesis dealt with the autobiographical novels of female writers. She published numerous articles on topics like Ricarda Huch, Hermann Hesse, Heinrich and Thomas Mann, and Theodor Fontane. Since 1992, Karin Tebben teaches at the university of Oldenburg.

Charlton Torres holds a Bachelors degree in History from the University of Georgia and a Masters degree in German Literature from UCLA, where he is pursuing his doctorate with a focus on Critical Theory and Intellectual History.

Kryztof Urban received his Master of Arts in Germanic Linguistics in the spring of 2000 from the University of California, Los Angeles. He passed his qualifying exams there in the fall of 2001, and is writing his dissertation on connectionist models of sign-based linguistic theories.

Christina J. Wegel received her Master of Arts in German Literature in May 1998 from the University of Vermont in Burlington and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature at UCLA. She is writing her dissertation on suicide and self-destruction in selected literary works of the Weimar Republic.

Claire Whitner is currently in her second year in the Germanic Languages Department at the University of California.  She completed a Bachelors Degree in German in 1999 at the Johns Hopkins University.  Having received her Masters during the 2001-2002 academic year at UCLA, she is currently specializing in German modern aesthetic theory and art history in preparation for her Ph.D.

Sharon Worley received her Master's degree in Art History from Tufts University in 1991.  Her thesis "The Influence of Russian Apocalypticism on the Art and Theory of Kandinsky, 1900-1914" examined the rich cultural traditions of apocalypticism in Russian Orthodoxy and their reevaluation and transformation by contemporary Russian authors and artists. From 1993-2000 Ms. Worley was the curator of the Cape Ann Historical Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts.