About the Author

Jay Julian Rosellini (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1976) is Professor of German and Humanities at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. He has taught at Haverford College, Washington University, MIT, and Purdue University. His publications on German literature and society include monographs on Thomas Müntzer and the radical wing of the Reformation, East German dissident writers Wolf Biermann and Volker Braun, and most recently the reappearance of conservative intellectuals in reunified Germany. His study Literary Skinheads? Writing from the Right in Reunified Germany (Purdue University Press, 2000) was awarded the 2002 DAAD/German Studies Association Prize for the best book in German language and literature, cultural studies, and the humanities.