Against All Odds: Models of Subversive Spaces in National Socialist Germany

German Life and Civilization provides contributions to a critical understanding of Central European cultural history from medieval times to the present. Culture is here defined in the broadest sense, comprising expressions of high culture in such areas as literature, music, pictorial arts, and intellectual trends as well as political and sociohistorical developments and the texture of everyday life.

The Author: Corina L. Petrescu studied German and American Studies at the University of Bucharest in Romania and came to the United States to pursue graduate degrees from the University of Pittsburgh, PA (M.A.) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.). She received her doctorate in 2006 and is an Assistant Professor of German at the University of Mississippi. Her research and teaching interests include National Socialist Germany, representations of 1968 in the German and Romanian imaginary, protest movements, transnational/transcultural literature, German-Jewish relations from the 18th century to the present, and Yiddish theater.