Dagmar C. G. Lorenz (1948- ) is Professor of

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and from 2006 to 2010 served as Director of

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at the

University of Illinois at Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the Universi ...

. She teaches and publishes on Austrian,

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and German-Jewish literature and culture, and

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. She was born in

Goslar Goslar (; Eastphalian dialect, Eastphalian: ''Goslär'') is a historic town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the administrative centre of the Goslar (district), district of Goslar and is located on the northwestern wikt:slope, slopes of the Harz ...

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and began her studies (German, English, Philosophy, Pedagogy) at the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen (, commonly referred to as Georgia Augusta), is a Public university, public research university in the city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1734 ...

(Germany). She completed her Ph.D. in German (1973) and her MA in English (1974) at the University of Cincinnati. She taught at

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/Douglass College (1974/5),

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, Columbus (1975-1982 Assistant Professor; 1982-1988 Associate Professor; 1989-1998 Professor), University of Illinois at Chicago (1998–present; Interim Head, Germanic Studies 2002–2003), and held a Visiting Professorship at the

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(2000). She served as the editor of The German Quarterly (1997-2003) and held offices with MLA, GSA, MALCA, and AATG.

Books

* ''Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers'' (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997), 432 pp. * ''Verfolgung bis zum Massenmord. Diskurse zum Holocaust in deutscher Sprache'' (German Life and Civilization, ed. Jost Hermand) (Bern, New York: Lang, 1992), 452 pp. * ''Franz Grillparzer — Dichter des sozialen Konflikts'' (Vienna, Cologne: Böhlau, 1986), 221 pp. * ''Ilse Aichinger'' (Königstein: Athenäum, 1981), 259 pp.

Edited volumes

* Elsa Porges-Bernstein alias Ernst Rosmer: Woman, Writer, Holocaust Survivor:a Critical Anthology (coedited with Helga W. Kraft, 2006), * A Companion to the Works of

Elias Canetti Elias Canetti (; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994; ; ) was a German-language writer, known as a Literary modernism, modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer. Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, to a Sephardi Jews, Sephardic Jewish fam ...

(2004) * A Companion to the Works of

Arthur Schnitzler Arthur Schnitzler (15 May 1862 – 21 October 1931) was an Austrian author and dramatist. He is considered one of the most significant representatives of Viennese Modernism. Schnitzler’s works, which include psychological dramas and narratives ...

(2003) * Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria (1999) * Transforming the center, Eroding the Margins: Essays on Ethnic and Cultural Boundaries in German Speaking Countries (coedited with Renate S. Posthofen (1998)) * Insiders and Outsiders. Jewish and Gentile Culture in Germany and Austria (1994).

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Biography

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
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