Anne Hermann

Professor of English and Women's Studies and Interim Chair of the Women's Studies Department Ph.D., Yale University

Contact Information:

1122 Lane Hall
204 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1290

734.764.2047
734.763.4634
Email: anneh@umich.edu

Website:
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/faculty/fibDetail.asp?ID=255

Scholarly Interests: Feminist and queer theory; 20th century comparative literature and cultural studies; autobiographical writings and creative non-fiction.

Biography: Anne Herrmann is Professor of English and Women's Studies and Interim Chair of the Women's Studies Department. She received her degree in Comparative Literature, with an emphasis in English and German literature and French feminist theory. Her primary interests lie in 20th century literary and cultural productions. A particular focus has been questions of subjectivity as related to the performance of identities and issues of literary genre and language. She is currently working on a book on Switzerland, a work of creative non-fiction that engages with questions of citizenship, cultural production and belonging, and the politics of language within a changing Europe. From 2003-06 she was Graduate Director in the Women's Studies Program.

Publications:

"Coming Out Swiss/Living in the Fifth Switzerland" Southwest Review 91:2 (2006)

Queering the Moderns: Poses/Portraits/Peformances (Palgrave, 2000).

A Menopausal Memoir: Letters from Another Climate (Haworth, 1998).

Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences, ed. with Abigail Stewart (Westview, 1994)