Liberating Voices from East-Germany and China - A Personal Note
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.
Recommended Citation
Liu, Holly, "Liberating Voices from East-Germany and China - A Personal Note" (2011). Humanities Symposium. 16.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2011/2011/16
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.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Academic Lecture