Carl Niekerk received his PhD from Washington University in St. Louis and is currently Professor of German with affiliate appointments in French, comparative and world literature, and Jewish studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 2016, he is the editor of The German Quarterly and, since 2012, a co-editor of the Lessing Yearbook/Jahrbuch. He is the author of ... Read moreReading Mahler: German Culture and Jewish Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010; second edition [paperback] 2013) and books on Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and J. W. von Goethe. His teaching and research interests include the Radical Enlightenment, early anthropology, German- and Austrian-Jewish cultural history, psychoanalysis and culture, colonialism and postcolonialism, world literature, and comparative Dutch studies. Cori Crane received her PhD from Georgetown University and is currently Associate Professor of the Practice and Director of the Language Program in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature at Duke University. From 2012 to 2017 she served as Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and from 2004 to 2012 as the German Language Program Director at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her areas of research focus on second language writing, curriculum development, and foreign language pedagogy. She has published on pedagogical and curricular models, genre theory, and language teacher education. Currently, she is co-writing a book on the development of narrative writing across undergraduate foreign language curricula from a systemic functional linguistic perspective. Show Less