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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鈥檚 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 鈥淥utsiders in German Film;鈥 鈥淭he Forest for the Trees鈥 (FYS); 鈥淭ransnational Migration in Contemporary Germany鈥 and 鈥淒ivided Germany: History, Culture, Memory.鈥 She also leads a TREK to Germany with a focus on 鈥淪ustainability and Green Living.鈥

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:
鈥淩adical Care in the Neoliberal Institution: Two Administrators in Conversation.鈥 With Alexandra Stewart. Feminist German Studies 40.1, Spring/Summer 2024.

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

鈥淚magined Homes: Negotiating German Identity in the Eastern Provinces in Thomas Arslan鈥漵 Ferien and Dominik Graf鈥漵 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.鈥Heimat at the Intersection of Memory and Space, eds. Friederike Eigler and Jens Kugele. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.

鈥淪how and Tell: Doris D枚rrie鈥檚 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.

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

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