Associate Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Associate Professor of German Studies and Director, Museum Studies Program
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MLB 3144
phone: 734.764.5466
hours: Fridays 1-2 pm and by appointment
Graduate Faculty; Faculty; Germanic Languages and Literatures; Department Administration; German
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., German Studies, Free University BerlinHighlighted Work and Publications
Dioramas of a New World:' Siegfried Kracauer and Weimar Exhibition Culture
Kerstin Barndt
Name of Periodical: Culture in the Anteroom
Year of Publication: 2012
Page Numbers: 166-182
Working Through Ruins: Berlin’s Neues Museum
Kerstin Barndt
Name of Periodical: Germanic Review
Year of Publication: 2011
Mothers, Citizens, and Consumers: Female Readers in Weimar Germany
Kerstin Barndt
Name of Periodical: Weimar Publics/Weimar Subject
Year of Publication: 2010
Page Numbers: 95-115
Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects: Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s
Kathleen Canning, Kerstin Barndt, Kristin McGuire
In spite of having been short-lived, “Weimar” has never lost its fascination. Until recently the Weimar Republic’s place in German history was primarily defined by its catastrophic beginning and end - Germany’s defeat in 1918 and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933; its history seen mainly in terms of politics and as an arena of flawed decisions and failed compromises. However, a flourishing of interdisciplinary scholarship on Weimar political culture is uncovering arenas of conflict and change that had not been studied closely before, such as gender, body politics, masculinity, citizenship...
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