About the Author

Brenda Bethman is Director of the Women’s Center at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she also holds appointments as the Acting Director of Women’s and Gender Studies and as Affiliated Faculty in German in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. She has presented and published on women’s literature, Elfriede Jelinek, Marlene Streeruwitz, Ingeborg Bachmann, and feminism in a variety of venues. She holds a BA in German literature from Dickinson College, an MA in German literature from Temple University, and a PhD in modern German studies as well as a Graduate Certificate in advanced feminist studies from UMass Amherst.