Contributors

Jeffrey Berman is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University at Albany. His most recent book, coauthored with Paul Mosher, Confidentiality and Its Discontents: Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy , received the American Psychoanalytic Association's 2017 Courage to Dream Book Prize. He is an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Hunter Bivens is Associate Professor of Literature and German Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he also directs the Center for Cultural Studies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2006 and is the author of Epic and Exile: Novels of The German Popular Front, 1933-1945 . He has also published widely on the literature and film of the former German Democratic Republic.

Robert Cohen retired from the German Department at New York University in 2012. He has published numerous articles on twentieth-century German literature and several monographs on Peter Weiss. He is the editor of Volume II/3 of the collected works of Anna Seghers, as well as the author of the historical novel Exil der frechen Frauen . He is a member of the advisory board of the journal Das Argument, and of the Berlin Institute of Critical Theory (InkriT).

Helen Fehervary, Professor Emerita, Ohio State University, is a German Studies scholar specializing in twentieth-century literature, drama and theater, and intellectual history. Among her wide-ranging publications, those on Anna Seghers include the monograph Anna Seghers: The Mythic Dimension ; a text-critical, commentated edition of her short novel Aufstand der Fischer von St. Barbara ; and numerous articles. She is general editor, with Bernhard Spies, of the twenty four-volume Seghers Werkausgabe (collected works edition) published by