Professor Christina Gerhardt’s article “Fassbinder’s Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975) in a Genealogy of the Arbeiterfilme” has been published in Film Criticism 41.1 (February 2017).

It can be read on-line at this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/fc.13761232.0041.109

Professor Christina Gerhardt guest-edited 1968 and West German Cinema a special issue of The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture 10 (2017), which has just been published on-line (hard copy of the journal to follow).

The issue includes the following articles:

Christina Gerhardt – Introduction: Cinema in West Germany around 1968

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Christina Gerhardt, Assistant Professor of German at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, will be returning to the University of California, Berkeley, this time as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of European Studies, and to Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, also as Visiting Scholar, during the 2017–18 academic […]

Graduate student Uy-di Nancy Le, pursuing an M.A. in Second Language Studies (SLS), has been awarded a Summer Course Grant by the DAAD. She will study at Hamburg University this summer.

Nancy is an alumna of the German program at UH Manoa.

She graduated in 2016 with a double major in German and psychology.

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