Werner, Meike G. – TRANS

Werner, Meike G.: Associate Professor of German at Vanderbilt University, USA. She specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary and cultural studies. Her research focuses on modernism, print culture, cult books, and women writers. She has written a book about Modernity in the Province: Cultural Experiments in Fin de Siècle Jena (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2003). In addition, she has authored articles on the history of publishing, on turn of the century reform movements, on twentieth-century intellectuals, on Sophie von La Roche and Rahel Sanzara. She is also the co-editor of Romantik, Revolution & Reform. Der Eugen Diederichs Verlag im Epochenkontext 1900–1949 (Göttingen: Wallstein, 1999) and German Literature and Jewish Critics: The Brandeis Symposium (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2002). In 2001, she edited a special issue of the Germanic Review on Publishing Culture. Cultural Studies and the History of Books in Modern Germany.

Email: meike.werner@vanderbilt.edu