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Degrees

  • B.A., Kenyon 1986
  • M.A., Bowling Green State 1989
  • Ph.D., University of Mass-Amherst 1995

 

Areas of Interest

Dr. Herrmann檚 research focuses on 20th and 21st-century German and transnational film, food studies, and environmental humanities. Her research is informed by feminist perspectives, spatial theories, and shaped by new materialist approaches to the humanities. She has published articles in a variety of journals and edited collections and is completing a monograph entitled Geographies of Ordinary Lives: Physical and Emotional Landscapes in German Film Since 2000.

Courses Taught

Dr. Herrmann teaches courses in German language and culture, cinema, and environmental studies. Some of her recent courses include 淥utsiders in German Film; 淭he Forest for the Trees (FYS); 淭ransnational Migration in Contemporary Germany and 淒ivided Germany: History, Culture, Memory. She also leads a TREK to Germany with a focus on 淪ustainability and Green Living.

Publications

Prof. Herrmann is completing a monograph on German film entitledGeographies of Ordinary Lives: Physical and Emotional Landscapes in German Film Since 2000.

Her most recent articles include:
淩adical Care in the Neoliberal Institution: Two Administrators in Conversation. With Alexandra Stewart. Feminist German Studies 40.1, Spring/Summer 2024.

淭he Work of Moving Through Nature: New Material Readings of Thomas 础谤蝉濒补苍檚 Gold and Kelly Reichardt檚 Meek檚 Cutoff. German Studies Review 42.1, Feb. 2019.

淚magined Homes: Negotiating German Identity in the Eastern Provinces in Thomas Arslan漵 Ferien and Dominik Graf漵 Komm mir nicht nach. Representations of German Identity, eds. Thomas Hakenson and Deborah Ascher Barnstone. Oxford, Bern, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2013.

Geisterlandschaften: The Memory of Heimat in Recent Berlin School 贵颈濒尘蝉.Heimat at the Intersection of Memory and Space, eds. Friederike Eigler and Jens Kugele. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.

淪how and Tell: Doris D枚rrie檚 Strategies of Adaptation in Bin ich sch枚n. Re-Mediations: German Texts and Contexts, eds. Susan Figge and Jenifer Ward. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010.

淭he Spy as Writer: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck檚 The Lives of Others. Gegenwartsliteratur, Spring 2008.

Professional Affiliations
  • Modern Language Association
  • German Studies Association
  • Coalition of Women in German