Helga Druxes

Helga Druxes (born May 27, 1959 ) is an American literary scholar .

Life

Druxes studied at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1987 she received her doctorate in comparative literature . She then went to Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She is currently Professor of German at the Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures & Cultures there.

Druxes research focuses are u. a. modern German literature, feminist philosophy of science, migration and nationalism, colonial literature and the use of multimedia. She is u. a. Member of the German Studies Association , the Modern Language Association , the Cultural Studies Association , the Northeastern Modern Language Association and Women in German .

Fonts (selection)

• Queerbeet: An Intermediate German Reader (= American university studies . Series 6. Foreign language instruction . Vol. 7). Lang, New York et al. a. 1988, ISBN 0-8204-0526-4 .
• The Feminization of Dr. Faustus: Female Identity Quests from Stendhal to Morgner . Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park 1993, ISBN 0-271-00759-1 .
• Resisting Bodies: The Negotiation of Female Agency in Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction (= review: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series ). Wayne State University Press, Detroit 1996, ISBN 0-8143-2534-3 .
• with Patricia Anne Simpson (Ed.): Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States . Lexington Books, London 2015, ISBN 978-0-7391-9881-0 .

Web links

• Search for Helga Druxes in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Helga Druxes at the Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures & Cultures at Williams College