Focus Spring 1994.tif 106 foem on LiteralitY Contributors JENIFER S. CU511MAN is a graduate student in the Department of Ger· manic Languages and Literatures at Ohio State University. She re* cei"ecl her SA from Rhodes College, Memphis, in Psychology and German. She has also studied at the Eberhard-Karls-Universitat, Frei­ burg. Her scholarly interests include modernism and art hi<;tory, as reflected in her dissertation topic: "Verhallcons: Kandinsky and Rus­ sian An in Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies." ANA DJuKlc-CocKS earned her SA at the Uni,-ersilY of Belgrade and her MA in German literature at the University of Cincinnati, where she is presently completing her dissertation on "Das Amerikabild in den Repo rtagen von Egon Erwin Kisch." Her other interests include the Spanish language and Latin American literature, history, and cul­ ture. CARY HENDERSON is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Studies:u SUNY Stony Brook. He received his BA in German Linguistics at Indiana University and his MA in Comparative Literature at Florida Atlantic University. His dissertatio n examines conceptions of the author and her work reflected in the autobiographies and historio­ graphic fiction of two female authors who wrote under Stalinist re­ gimes. KAUSJ-IALYA KRISII NAMOORH-IY earned an M A and M Phil. in Ger­ man at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is currently a graduate student in the Department of German Languages and Litera· tures at the University of Pittsburgh. She has studied and wrillen on [he Haiti tradition in German literature, with a focus on I leinrich von Kleist, Anna Seghers and Hans Christoph Buch. Other scholarly interests include German travelogues o f the New World. MARiA LoSADA received her BA in English from the University of Seville, Spain, and her MA in Comparati,'e Literature at the U niver­ sity of North Carolina at C hapel Hill. She is currently writing her asociado in English at the University of Hue\va, Spain. BA.RBARA MENNEL is a graduate student in the Depanment of Ger­ man Studies at Cornell University, minoring in Women's Studies and Cinema. She earned MAs in \'(Iomen's Studies and German at Ohio State University. She has also studied Germanis[ik, Politikwis­ senschaften, and Soziologie at the Freie Universitat Berlin. Her main scholarly interests are currently in feminist theory and feminist liter­ ary cnllClsm. THOMAS RINGMAYR is;!' doctoral ca.ndidate in Gerrna.nics at the Uni­ versity of Washington, Seanle, where he is completing a dissertation on humor in contempor.uy German literature, specifically in Arno Schmidt, Eckhard Henscheid, and Robert Gernhardt. He studied lit­ erature, phi losophy, and history in Regensburg and Munich, and was also a teaching assistant at the University of Hawaii. He has pub­ lished on Schmidt, Henscheid, and the history of German satire and political cabaret. He is currently working on projects including the depiction of law in German literature, dialect satire, radio culture of the 1940s and 50s. Editors DAVID COURY earned his BA in German and Biology at Wittenberg University and his MA in German at the University of Cincinnati where he is currently a PhD student. He is primarily interested in German Film Studies. H ERMAN J. DE VRIES, JR. carne to Cincinnati after earning his BA at Calvin College. As an ABO he is currently writing a dissertation on the PsaJmendichftmgof Nicolaus Selnecker, asixteenth-century writer. J. GREGORY REDDING earned his AB at Wabash College and his MA in German at the Universiry of Cincinnati where he is currently ABO. 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