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Department of Modern Language Studies
Healing Through History
Benjamin Ireland sheds light on a little-known WWII tragedy and reunites a family in the process. (continue reading)
Recent Publications
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Germany’s Ghosts: Female Embodiment and Emergent Anger in Petzold’s Barbara (2011) and Phoenix (2014)
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Waiting to be Human: The Cruel Optimism of Christian Petzold’s Transit (2018)
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Reconstructing Identity at the End of the World in Gianni Miraglia's Muori, Milano, muori! and Francesca Genti's La febbre
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Queer Moments and Cruel Optimism in Evelyn Schmidt’s Das Fahrrad (The Bicycle, 1982)