Cora Lee Kluge is Professor of German and Director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has published articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature, German-American studies, and the history of German studies in the United States; and she has served as editor of the German studies journal Monatshefte. Her work includes editions entitled Christian Essellen’s Babylon (1996), Wisconsin German Land and Life (with Heike Bungert and Robert C. Ostergren, 2006), and Other Witnesses: An Anthology of Literature of the German Americans, 1850-1914 (2007).

• Contents: Cora Lee Kluge/Mark L. Louden: German-American Studies: An Expansive - and Expanding - Field – Jost Hermand: Forced Out of Hitler’s Reich: Five Eminent Madisonians – Walter D. Kamphoefner: Elvis and Other Germans: Some Reflections and Modest Proposals on the Study of German-American Ethnicity – Hartmut Keil: «That Species of Property»: Francis Lieber’s Encounter with Slavery and Race – Hugh Ridley: Sealsfield’s Das Kajütenbuch: The Half-Unfolded Spring of German and American Literature – Lorie A. Vanchena: Taking Stock: The Disappearance of German-American Literature? – Daniel Nützel: German-American Dialects on Different Paths to Extinction: Examples from Haysville, Indiana and New Ulm, Minnesota – Steven Hoelscher: Performing the American Myth by Speaking German: Changing Meanings of Ethnic Identity between the World Wars – Uwe Lübken: Situating Natural Hazards in German-American Studies – Louis A. Pitschmann: Advancing German-American Studies in the Digital Age: Opportunities for Collaboration.