Focus 2003.tif 276 FoCllJ on German Studiu 277 Contributors Diana Alberghini recei\'ed her B.A. in Modern Languages and European Studies with a specialization in French and German (I-Ughest Honors) from the University of Balil, UK in 1997. She ob tained a Ph.D. from Ihe University o f Balh with a dissertation entitled " Helga K6nigsdorf 's Evohring Identities: An Eastern German Author's Responses lO an Era of Personal and Po litical Upheaval: 1978- 1998." Since completing her postgradua te studies, she has been working as a uansla[Qr and has recently taken a posicion willI the sea rch engine Google. Nadine Blumer is an M.A. srudem in me Depanmcm of Sociology at rhe University of Toronto. Her current research foclIses on dle Rama community in Toronto. She intend s to pursue doclOral srudies in order to explore the connection between Jews and SUl ci and Roma in present-day Ge rmany. Carotin Dmtlinger is curren tly completing her Ph.D. thesis on "Kafka. Phmography and Visua l Culture" at St. John'S Culk ge, University o f Cambridge. UK. She has publIsh ed articles on Freud, Benjamin, Kafka and \XZG. Sebald, and is the editOr o f an essay collection on performance in German cultural srudics. Stefan Heppner holds all l"I I.A. fr.om the University o f Frciburg (1996) and an A.D.D. from the University of O regon (1999). Currenliy, he is finishing his Ph.D. in German Uternture at the University of Goningen. His publications include work on German Ro manticism, Brecht, and comemporary pop culture. During rhe 2003-2004 academic year, Stefan will teach semmars on j\rno, Schmidt and umpian li terature at the Universiry of Gon:ingen. Avi Kempinski is a Ph.D. candidate in German St\lclles at (he University o f 'Michigan, where he is completing a diSserta tion on We. Seba ld. His research inrerests mdude post- Ho locaust rep resentation and resulting memory debates. lie has also worked '78 on Jewish identiry construction In popular film. He has t-.'laster's degrees in Comparative Literarure and Library Science. Before returning to gradua te studies, he was a free- lance writer and librarian. Michael Putn20m is currenuy a Ph.D. student in the Depanment of Ge.r::manic Languages and Li.terarures at the University of Kansas. His main research interests IfIclude German-American Dialectology, in particular Pennsylvania Germ20n, Germ.anic linguistics., American English and Theoretical Syntax with a specific focus on Synractic Change. He has srudied at (he Deutscher Sprachadas in Ma[burg on a DAAD fellowship. Emily P. Sepp is an M.A. gradua te in German from the University of Montana.!vtissoll]a, where her chesis," ' ... so spielen wu auf dem Friedhof:' Ilse Aichinger's Dil griij/trt HoJfI/lOl,g and the IIolocausl through the Eyes of a Child," eamed the universiry's 2002 WAGS/ UMI Distinguished Master's T hesis Award. The recipient of a joint fellowship in German and Judaic Studies, she plans to begin Ph.D. work in lhe fall of 2003 at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Sabine Sievern is currently 20 Ph.D. Candidate in the Deparmlem of Modem Languages and Cultural Srudies at the University of Alberta, where she also recrived an M.A. in German uterarure in 2000. She funher holds a D;pklm in Translation Srudies from the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat l\Iatnz. She is currently working on her dissenation focusing on the historic201 drama written by women in me 19dt. cenrury. Joseph Suglta lives in Chicago, Illinois. He teaches at Northwestern, DePaul, and Rooseveh Universities. I Ie received his doctorate from Northwestern University In 2002. His work has been published/ accepted for publication in diamtiu, Germanic Notes and lliview!, Cerl!/{llI Lift and uttm, Tbl Ametitan Calbo}ic Pbi}o!ophica/ Quarter/), TIN Fatl! on Fill COlIJpll1liOflIO Ihe Anltn'call Novel, and the forthcoming anthology, Uleralltrl ami the L(JJv, He is currently working on a novel. 279 Marielle Sutherland hails from Hartlepool, Northeast England. She studied German at The Queen's College, Oxford, and received a Master's Degree from Univcrsiry College London. Manclle is currenuy a doctoral srudcnt al University College London. Her disserution is entiued "Refiguring Death: The Poerics of Transience in the Work of Ramer Maria Rilke." She has lived in Osnabrock, Aschecslebcn, and Berlin. Sean Wilson earned a B.A. In Economics and German Studies from the New College of Florida. TIlere, he conducted an economic analysis of Nazi Getmany through 20 case study of the Volkswagen project. 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