Research areas: Memory of the GDR and the Third Reich; representations of childhood
Relevant Publications
The Child’s View of the Third Reich in German Literature: The Eye Among the Blind (Oxford: Clarendon, 2001)
‘”Erinnerung ideologisch entschlacken” or Lost in Translation: Reflections on Jana Hensel’s ‘Zonenkinder’ and its American translation’ , German Life and Letters 60 (2007), 133-48
‘”Das Muendel will Vormund sein”: The GDR state as child, German Life and Letters 64 (2011), 283-304;