CULTIVATING FEMINIST CHOICES
A FEminiSTSCHRIFT in Honor of Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres
By BRIGETTA M. ABEL, NICOLE GREWLING, BETH ANN MUELLNER, & HELGA THORSON (Eds.)
2021
ISBN 9781550586794 (paperback), 9781550586800(PDF)
238 pages
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This book is a Festschrift in honor of Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres, written by several former graduate students, whom she supervised over her years as professor of German Studies at the University of Minnesota, and some of her colleagues and collaborators. The book pays tribute to Joeres’s influence on the German Studies profession as well as to her influence on the contributors’ lives and the feminist choices they have made. Dr. Joeres is known for her feminist scholarly contributions to women’s writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, including her book “Respectability and Deviance: Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers and the Ambiguity of Representation” (U of Chicago Press, 1998), and her collaborative feminist editing practices as editor of both “Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society” and the “Women in German Yearbook.” Together with Angelika Bammer, she edited a volume “On the Future of Scholarly Writing: Critical Interventions” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015) that navigates the terrain of academic writing practices and calls for a focus not only on what scholars write but on how they write it. Because of her critical interventions in the realm of academia in general and feminist studies and German studies, in particular, as well as her influence on the lives of the next generations, this book will be of interest beyond those who know her personally.
Subjects: Joeres, Ruth-Ellen B., Feminism, Authorship, Germany, Academic writing, Festschriften.
Brigetta (Britt) Abel is Associate Professor of German Studies and Director of Writing at Macalester College (St Paul, MN). She is a lead author and co-project director of Grenzenlos Deutsch, an open-access, collaboratively produced online curriculum for beginning German, which is funded in part through a digital humanities advancement grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Nicole Grewling is an Associate Professor of German Studies at Washington College (Chestertown, Maryland), where she has taught language, literature, and culture courses since 2011. Her research and teaching interests include nineteenth-century literature and culture, portrayals of America in German literature, travel literature, and the exotic. Her work focuses particularly on German colonial fantasies and German relationships to their others, especially their love for Native Americans.
Beth Ann Muellner is a Professor of German Studies in the German and Russian Studies Department at the College of Wooster, where she has taught language and culture courses since 2004. Her research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century autobiographical writing, photography studies, museum studies, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature.
Helga Thorson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria in Canada, on the traditional lands of the Lekwungen peoples. Her research focuses on a diverse range of topics, including modernist German and Austrian literature and culture, Scandinavian studies, gender studies, history of medicine, foreign language pedagogy, and Holocaust studies.
CULTIVATING FEMINIST CHOICES: A FEminiSTSCHRIFT in Honor of Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres
LIST OF FIGURES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CH. 1: FEMINIST CHOICES
CH. 2: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
CH. 3: UNBOXED
CH. 4: ON THIS OCCASION, SEVEN LETTERS
CH. 5: EIN (UNVOLLSTANDIGER) REISEBERICHT
CH. 6: MINDFULNESS IN ACADEMIA
CH. 7: FEMINIST COLLABORATION
CH. 8: AUTOGYNOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING
CH. 9: WRITING THAT MATTERS
CH. 10: FEMINIST SCHOLAR/ACTIVIST, TEACHER, MENTOR, COLLEAGUE, FRIEND
CH. 11: TEA WITH R.E.
CH. 12: A PERSONAL AND INTELLECTUAL FEMINIST JOURNEY OVER FOUR DECADES WITH RUTH-ELLEN BOETCHER JOERES
APPENDIX A: LIST OF SELECTED BOOK PUBLICATIONS BY RUTH-ELLEN BOETCHER JOERES
APPENDIX B: LIST OF SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS BY RUTH-ELLEN BOETCHER JOERES
APPENDIX C: LIST OF DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED BY RUTH-ELLEN BOETCHER JOERES
ABOUT THE EDITORS
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