Alexandra M Hill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3992152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra M Hill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hill |
| SIGNATURE | HILL A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Remaking Relationships
How should we teach a class on family in the twenty-first century, when the meaning and makeup of “family” are under attack from all political angles? This article relates an attempt to rethink the family course as interdisciplinary, thematically arranged, heavily dependent on student engagement, and collaborative. From course conception to pitfalls and retrospection, this article provides an overview of a course implemented by the authors and th…
Family without futurity, kinship without biology: Childlessness in contemporary German literature by women
As Germany’s birthrate declines, childlessness is a reality for more women yet remains underrepresented in literature and pop-culture. In this article, I analyze two texts that have struck a nerve with the German public: the novel Wetlands by Charlotte Roche (2008) and the connected short stories in Alice by Judith Hermann (2009). Both protagonists resist what Lee Edelman called the “fascism of the baby’s face” and remain childless despite cultur…
The Violent Turn: West German Women as Victims of Neoliberalism
The precarious situation of women under neoliberalism is foregrounded in two novels by former West Germans, published a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall: Regenroman (1999) by Karen Duve and Die Schattenboxerin (1999) by Inka Parei. These novels set stories of sexual violence against the backdrop of the period's political upheaval and economic change. Drawing on feminist approaches, this article argues that neoliberalism depends on a reifi…
The Childless Woman as Failure; or, the “Spinster Aunt” as Provocation for the Future
One of the great strengths of Women in German as an organization is that it creates a space within academic and political work for personal experience, for one’s experiences as scholar, colleague, student, teacher, friend, and son or daughter. It was my daughterly perspective that I brought to my scholarship on Julia Franck and motherhood, including the motherhood/demography debate from 2008. My mother died at the beginning of my graduate studies…
Writing from the Gaps: A Conversation with Julia Franck
The novels of Julia Franck (b. 1970, East Berlin) draw on German literary tradition to explore the interconnection of private lives and public histories. This interview was an opportunity to revisit several topics in a pointed way, including Franck’s role as a public intellectual and a feminist, which has changed significantly with the publication of her two most recent novels
Family without futurity, kinship without biology: Childlessness in contemporary German literature by women
As Germany’s birthrate declines, childlessness is a reality for more women yet remains underrepresented in literature and pop-culture. In this article, I analyze two texts that have struck a nerve with the German public: the novel Wetlands by Charlotte Roche (2008) and the connected short stories in Alice by Judith Hermann (2009). Both protagonists resist what Lee Edelman called the “fascism of the baby’s face” and remain childless despite cultur…
Writing from the Gaps: A Conversation with Julia Franck
The novels of Julia Franck (b. 1970, East Berlin) draw on German literary tradition to explore the interconnection of private lives and public histories. This interview was an opportunity to revisit several topics in a pointed way, including Franck’s role as a public intellectual and a feminist, which has changed significantly with the publication of her two most recent novels
The Childless Woman as Failure; or, the “Spinster Aunt” as Provocation for the Future
One of the great strengths of Women in German as an organization is that it creates a space within academic and political work for personal experience, for one’s experiences as scholar, colleague, student, teacher, friend, and son or daughter. It was my daughterly perspective that I brought to my scholarship on Julia Franck and motherhood, including the motherhood/demography debate from 2008. My mother died at the beginning of my graduate studies…
The Violent Turn: West German Women as Victims of Neoliberalism
The precarious situation of women under neoliberalism is foregrounded in two novels by former West Germans, published a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall: Regenroman (1999) by Karen Duve and Die Schattenboxerin (1999) by Inka Parei. These novels set stories of sexual violence against the backdrop of the period's political upheaval and economic change. Drawing on feminist approaches, this article argues that neoliberalism depends on a reifi…
Family without futurity, kinship without biology: Childlessness in contemporary German literature by women
As Germany’s birthrate declines, childlessness is a reality for more women yet remains underrepresented in literature and pop-culture. In this article, I analyze two texts that have struck a nerve with the German public: the novel Wetlands by Charlotte Roche (2008) and the connected short stories in Alice by Judith Hermann (2009). Both protagonists resist what Lee Edelman called the “fascism of the baby’s face” and remain childless despite cultur…
Remaking Relationships
How should we teach a class on family in the twenty-first century, when the meaning and makeup of “family” are under attack from all political angles? This article relates an attempt to rethink the family course as interdisciplinary, thematically arranged, heavily dependent on student engagement, and collaborative. From course conception to pitfalls and retrospection, this article provides an overview of a course implemented by the authors and th…
Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · German (4 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · European history and politics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works)