Katherine Anderson defends dissertation on contemporary authors who adopt German as their literary language

On 15 March, Katherine Anderson successfully defended her dissertation for the German Ph.D., “Foreign Writing Agency: Maria Cecilia Barbetta & Abbas Khider Rewriting Identity after Trauma in German as a Foreign Language.” Ms. Anderson compares the two authors on the basis of the traumatic events that underlie their writing, and of their working through trauma through the adoption of German as a language and through the use of a variety of distancing techniques. Congratulations, Kate!