Cora Lee Kluge is Professor of German and Director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has published articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature, German-American studies, and the history of German studies in the United States; and she has served as editor of the German studies journal Monatshefte. Her work includes editions entitled Christian Essellen's Babylon (1996), Wisconsin German Land and Life (with Heike Bungert and Robert C. Ostergren, 2006), and Other Witnesses: An Anthology of Literature of the German Americans, 1850-1914 (2007).
Acknowledgments
p. vii
German-American Studies: An Expansiveùand ExpandingùField
p. 1
Forced Out of HitlerÆs Reich: Five Eminent Madisonians
p. 13
Elvis and Other Germans: Some Ref lections and Modest Proposals on the Study of German-American Ethnicity
p. 33
ôThat Species of Propertyö: Francis LieberÆs Encounter with Slavery and Race
p. 55
SealsfieldÆs Das Kajütenbuch: The Half-Unfolded Spring of German and American Literature
p. 85
Taking Stock: The Disappearance of German-American Literature?
p. 101
German-American Dialects on Dif ferent Paths to Extinction: Examples from Haysville, Indiana and New Ulm, Minnesota
p. 115
Performing the American Myth by Speaking German: Changing Meanings of Ethnic Identity between the World Wars
p. 133
Situating Natural Hazards in German-American Studies
p. 149
Advancing German-American Studies in the Digital Age: Opportunities for Collaboration
p. 163
Notes on Contributors
p. 173
Index
p. 177
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