German Faculty

Mareike Herrmann - Assistant Professor of German
(330) 263-2482 / mherrmann@wooster.edu

B.A. Kenyon 1986; M.A. Bowling Green State 1989; Ph.D. U. of Mass-Amherst 199

Mareike Herrmann is an associate professor of German and chair of department at The College of Wooster, where she has been a member of the faculty since 2001. Her primary areas of interest are 19th and 20th century German literature, film, cultural studies, and women's studies.

A native of Northern Germany, Herrmann was a student and language assistant at Kenyon College (1985-86), and studied German and English at the Christian-Albrechts Universität in Kiel, Germany (1986-88). She received her M.A. at Bowling Green State University (1989) and her Ph.D. in German at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (1995).

In her dissertation, Herrman explored the theme of exile in works by Heinrich Heine and Frederic Chopin. She has published articles on German girls and popular teenage magazines and on post-unification German film. Her current research projects include examinations of responses to American popular culture in post-war East/West Germany, filmmaker Doris Dörrie’s cinematic adaptations of her short stories, and issues of memory and textuality in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s 2006 film The Lives of Others.

Herrmann is a member of the Modern Language Association, German Studies Association, and the Coalition of Women in German.

Beth Ann Muellner - Assistant Professor of German
(330) 263-2307 / bmuellner@wooster.edu

B.A. Minnesota 1985; M.A. Maryland 1995; Ph.D. Minnesota 2003.

Beth Ann Muellner is an assistant professor of German Studies and an affiliate member of women, gender, and sexuality studies at The College of Wooster, where she joined the faculty in 2004. She specializes in cultural production in the 19th and 20th centuries, travel writing, colonialism, visual culture, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature.

Muellner earned her B.A. (1988) and Ph.D. (2003) from the University of Minnesota, and her M.A. (1995) from the University of Maryland. She studied German literature at the Freie Universität in Berlin from 1988-1992. Before coming to Wooster, she taught at the University of Maryland, the University of Minnesota, Humboldt University Berlin, and Gustavus Adolphus College.

Among her published articles are “The Photographic Enactment of the Early New Woman in 1890s German Women’s Bicycling Magazines” in The Women in German Yearbook and “The Deviance of Respectability: Nineteenth Century Transport from a Woman’s Perspective” in the Journal of Transport History.

Muellner is a member of the Modern Language Association, the AATG, Women in German, the AAUW, and the Nineteenth Century Studies Association.