Associate Professor, Canadian Centre of German and European Studies, York University

The institutions of European cultural modernity, including: European film, fashion, auto/biography, comparative literature, translation studies.

Current projects include "Cosmotrash: A New Generation in European Film” and “Berliner Chic: A Locational History of Berlin Fashion”

“Czech Mates: Locating and Gendering the Competing Habsburgian Presences at the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exhibition” (forthcoming); ed. Alternative Histories of Urban Consumption / Alternative Geschichten urbanen Konsums (Vienna: Milletre Verlag, 2008); Vorstellungswelten moderner Urbanität (Vienna: Löcker, 2005, with Markus Reisenleitner) – a translation of James Donald’s Imagining the Modern City (Indiana UP 1999)

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York University, Canadian Centre of German and European Studies, 230 York Lanes, Toronto, Ontario, M3P 1J3

(416) 736-5695

Zarathustra’s Sisters: Autobiography and the Shaping of Cultural History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.

• Current position: Associate Professor, Division of Humanities, York University, appointed July 1, 2004, awarded tenure and promotion July 1, 2008 • 2003 – 2004: Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong • 2001 – 2003: Postdoctoral Fellow (Limited-term Assistant Professor), Department of History, University of Victoria • 2000: Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Alberta

• HUMA 2160 9.0: Romanticism and its Legacy • HUMA 2195: Defining Europe: An Introduction to European Studies • HUMA/GER 3600/4600 3.0: Berlin: Literature and Culture • HUMA 4180 6.0: Europe à la mode: Fashion and the Critical Methodologies of European Studies • HUMA 4725 6.0: Reading Bildung: The Humanities Tradition in German • HUMA 6125 3.0: Uncanny Fashion • HUMA 6133 3.0: Learning from Postmodernism

German, English

German, English