Barbara Kosta
- Professor, German Studies
- Professor, Social / Cultural / Critical Theory - GIDP
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
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Degrees
- Ph.D. German Studies
- University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
- “Personal Histories: Autobiography and Female Identity in Contemporary German Literature and Film.”
Work Experience
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2009 - Ongoing)
Interests
Research
Autobiographical narratives; Weimar Republic and the modern woman; Weimar cinema and remakes
Teaching
Twentieth-century and contemporary German literature, film and visual culture, autobiographical writing, feminist theory, gender studies, translation studies, and cultural studies.
Courses
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Scholarly Contributions
Books
- Kosta, B., von Hammerstein, K., & Shoults, J. (2018). Women Writing World War I: From German Colonialism through World War I.. Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter.More infoHow have women experienced and written about war? The centennial fo World War I and renewed interest in the devastating German colonial conflicts inspire us to revisit both well-known and rare texts written by German-speaking women about these violent struggles. This interdisciplinary volume examines narratives of war beyond the arenas of combat and deepened our understanding of the gendered experience of war as it intersects with issues of race, class and nation.
