Liberating Voices from East-Germany and China - A Personal Note

Presenter Information

Holly Liu, Alma College

Location

Massey Board Room

Presentation Type

Presentation

Start Date

16-9-2011 1:00 PM

Description

Dr. Holly Liu will discuss her personal experience of reading critical voices in East-German literature (Wolf Biermann, Christa Wolf and Monika Maron), literature that ultimately contributed to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. As a Chinese American Germanist, she will also share her observations of the current political reforms in China, hoping to generate discussions about the future of China. Dr. Liu is currently Associate Professor of German at Alma College in Michigan and has held visiting appointments at Old Dominion University, Hollins University and Mount Holyoke College. She studied German Language and Literature in China, Germany, and in the US where she received her Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University. Her publications include an edited volume on GDR and Exile Literature, interviews with Monika Maron, Helga Schütz and Brigitte Burmeister, and articles on Erich Maria Remarque, Burmeister and Schütz. She is particularly interested in research on contemporary German literature penned by writers of East German origin. Her monograph on Narrative Strategies of Maron, Schütz and Burmeister after the fall of the Berlin Wall (in German) will be published later this year at Georg Olms Verlag in Germany.

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Sep 16th, 1:00 PM

Liberating Voices from East-Germany and China - A Personal Note

Massey Board Room

Dr. Holly Liu will discuss her personal experience of reading critical voices in East-German literature (Wolf Biermann, Christa Wolf and Monika Maron), literature that ultimately contributed to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. As a Chinese American Germanist, she will also share her observations of the current political reforms in China, hoping to generate discussions about the future of China. Dr. Liu is currently Associate Professor of German at Alma College in Michigan and has held visiting appointments at Old Dominion University, Hollins University and Mount Holyoke College. She studied German Language and Literature in China, Germany, and in the US where she received her Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University. Her publications include an edited volume on GDR and Exile Literature, interviews with Monika Maron, Helga Schütz and Brigitte Burmeister, and articles on Erich Maria Remarque, Burmeister and Schütz. She is particularly interested in research on contemporary German literature penned by writers of East German origin. Her monograph on Narrative Strategies of Maron, Schütz and Burmeister after the fall of the Berlin Wall (in German) will be published later this year at Georg Olms Verlag in Germany.