Members of the Editorial Board serve a three year term during which they may not submit manuscripts for consideration for publication.
Editorial Associates
Beth Bjorklund (Ph. D., Indiana University). Associate Professor of German at University of Virginia. Bjorklund has published widely on contemporary Austrian literature and is also well known as a translator. She has written on Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer, Friederike Mayröcker, and Renate Welsh. She is currently working on a study of Friederike Mayröcker.
Raymond Burt (Ph.D., UCLA). Associate Professor of German at University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Much of Burt's research has focused on psychoanalysis and literature. His publications include a book on Friedrich Salomo Kraus. Most recently he has written on Michael Köhlmeier.
Anne Critchfield (Ph. D., University of Washington). Critchfield is an independent scholar who has published, presented papers, and designed classes which focus on twentieth century Austrian literature and culture. Her research interests include Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Franz Kafka, Peter Altenberg, Karl Kraus, Hitler and Austria, Gerhard Roth, and Elfriede Jelinek. Her publications include "Dominant Dyads: Father-Son and Mother-Daughter. A Comparison of Works by Franz Kafka and Elfriede Jelinek," Kafka's Legacy in Contemporary Austrian Literature, edited by Frank Pilipp (Riverside: Ariadne Press, 1997), 171-192. Check out her syllabus "Periods in German Literature in English Translation: The Coffeehouse Era," (1995/007) on the DAAD database.
Craig Decker (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine). Professor of German, Bates College. Two of Decker's research interests have been representations of Austria's fascist past and the history and theory of the Volkssück. Recently he translated Peter Henisch's Steins Paranoia (forthcoming, Ariadne Press) and is currently editing Balancing Acts: Textual Strategies of Peter Henisch (forthcoming, Ariadne Press). His publications include the essay "The Hermeneutics of Democracy: Nestroy, Horvath, Turrini and the Development of the Volksstück" (Seminar 27.3 [1991]: 219-32).
Allyson Fiddler (Ph.D., University of Southampton). Lecturer in German Studies in the Department of European Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University. Fiddler's research has focused on contemporary Austrian women writers. Her publications include her book Rewriting Reality: An Introduction to Elfriede Jelinek (1994) and her article 'Was geschah, nachdem die Briten Elfriede Jelinek gelesen hatten, oder die Jelinek-Rezeption in Grossbritannien', in Daniela Bartens and Paul Pechmann (eds.), Elfriede Jelinek: die internationale Rezeption (1997). She has edited and introduced the volume 'Other' Austrians: Post-1945 Austrian Women's Writing (1998).
Jutta Landa (Ph.D., University of Southern California). Lecturer in German at UCLA. Landa's areas of research include twentieth century Austrian theater, film and literature. She has published on Christoph Ransmayer, Felix Mitterer, and Vali Export. She has also written on and edited a volume on Austrian playwright Peter Turrini.
Joseph McVeigh (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania). Associate Professor of German Studies at Smith College. McVeigh has published widely on Austrian culture after World War II, focusing particularly on the fifties. His publications include Kontinuität und Vergangenheitsbewältigung in der österreichischen Literatur nach 1945 (Wien: Braumüller Vlg., 1988) and "Lifting the Paper Curtain: The Opening of Austrian Postwar Literary Culture to Germany" in German Studies Review (1996). His current projects include Ingeborg Bachmann in Vienna prior to her "discovery" in the early 1950s, the American Besatzungsender "Rot-Weiß-Rot" and Austrian Radio 1945-1955, and the culture wars in postwar Austria
John Pizer (Ph.D., University of Washington). Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Louisiana State University. Pizer has published extensively on nineteenth and turn-of-the-century Austrian and German literature. Two of his many publications are "Modern vs. Postmodern Satire: Karl Kraus and Elfriede Jelinek," Monatshefte 86 (1994): 500-13, and "'Ursprung ist das Ziel': Karl Kraus's Concept of Origin," Modern Austrian Literature 27 (1994): 1-21. Recent research interests include the image of Austria in the literature of Wilhelm Raabe and constructions of Austrian identity at the turn-of-the-century.
Willy Riemer (Ph.D., Yale). Associate Professor of German, University of Delaware. Riemer's research interests include contemporary Austrian literature and film and culture and film studies. He has actively promoted the study of Austrian film in his teaching and professional activities. Two publications of note are "Deterministic Chaos and the Postmodern Narrative: Peter Stephan Jungk's Tigor." Orbis Litterarum 50 (1995): 11-25, and "Tracking K.: Michael Haneke's Film Adaptation of Kafka's Das Schloss." J. Kafka Soc. of America 21 (1997): 47-55.
Anne Ulmer (Ph.D., Yale). Professor of German, Carleton College. Ulmer has published on postwar Austrian Literature. Publications include: "The Dubious Prophecy: Anarchy and Generation Conflict in Gert Hofmann's New Play Bakunins Leiche," in: Modern Austrian Literature 17.2 (1984): 73-86. (Coauthored with Walter Grünzweig) and "The Son as Survivor: Peter Henisch's Die kleine Figur meines Vaters. In: Germanic Review LXI.2 (Spring 1986): 57-64. "Genius Loci: Doderers Reconstructed Vienna,and the translation Peter Henisch Negatives of My Father (Ariadne Press, 1987." Current area of research: Kinder- und Jugendliteratur.
Robert Weigel (Ph.D., SUNY-Albany). Associate Professor of German at Auburn University. Weigel's research interests include fin-de-siècle Austrian literature, the grand narratives of exile, the exile experience, and contemporary Austrian literature. He has written a book entitled Zur geistigen Einheit von Hermann Brochs Werk. Massenpsychologie. Politologie. Romane (1994). In addition, he has published widely on Austrian literature with articles on Werfel, Schnitzler, Canetti, Morgenstern, Sebestyen, and Frischmuth.
Book Review Editor
Helga Schreckenberger (Ph.D, University of Kansas). Associate Professor of German, University of Vermont. Schreckenberger's area of research include turn-of-the-century Austrian literature, exile literature, film adaptations, and contemporary Austrian literature. She has published on Rainer Maria Rilke, Gerhard Roth, Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer, Elisabeth Reichart, Lilian Faschinger, and Marlene Streeruwitz. She has recently edited a volume entitled Die Aesthetik des Exils. In addition to these scholarly works, she has also translated Gerhard Roth and Elfriede Jelinek.
Editorial Assistant
Imelda Rohrbacher