Dr. Kathrin M. Bower
Associate Professor of German Studies
Profile
Awards
Distinguished Educator Award, 2001
Memberships
American Association of Teachers of German
German Studies Association
Modern Language Association
Women in German
Publications
Books
Ethics and Remembrance in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose Ausländer. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000.
Articles
“Serdar Somuncu: Turkish German Comedy as Transnational Intervention,” TRANSIT 7.1 Special Issue: Cosmopolitical and Transnational Interventions in German Studies (June 2011): http://german.berkeley.edu/transit/2011/articles/Bower.html
“Minority Identity as German Identity in Conscious Rap and Gangsta Rap: Pushing the Margins, Redefining the Center,” German Studies Review 34.2 (May 2011): 377-398
“Holocaust Avengers: From 'The Master Race' to Magneto," International Journal of Comic Art 6.2  (Fall 2004): 182-19
Chapters
“Wahr spricht, wer Schatten spricht: Die Angst vor der Unbestimmbarkeit in der Darstellung des Holocaust.” In Kulturelle Repräsentationen des Holocaust in Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten, ed. Klaus Berghahn, Jürgen Fohrmann, and Helmut Schneider. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 1-22.
“Claiming the Victim: Tokenism, Mourning and the Future of German Holocaust Poetry,” German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age: The Politics of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity, ed. Adrian Del Caro and Janet Ward. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2000. 131-139.

Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Contact Information
(804) 287-6060
(804) 287-6446 (Fax)
Areas of Expertise
German Cultural Studies
German Film
Holocaust Representation
Turkish German Comedy