Foreign Languages and Literatures at University of New Mexico

FLL Faculty

Susanne Baackmann - Associate Professor of German

Director of Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies

Susanne Baackmann - Associate Professor

Contact Information

Ortega Hall 349C University of New Mexico Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 Fax: (505) 277-3599 Email:

Educational History

1993, Ph.D., in German Studies, University of California at Berkeley.

1986, M.A., in German Literature, English Literature, Philosophy, Universität Duisburg, Germany

Research Interests

Susanne Baackmann received her Ph.D. in German Studies at the University of California at Berkeley in 1993. Her first book Erklär mir Liebe. Weibliche Schreibweisen von Liebe in der Gegenwartsliteratur [Explain Love to me. Women Authors Rewrite the Lovestory] (Berlin 1995) is concerned with female interventions in the discourse of love. Her second book, co-edited with Hilary Sy-Quia, examines Conquering Women. Women, War, and the German Cultural Imagination (IAS Press 2000). She has published numerous articles on contemporary women authors and filmmakers, as well as on visual artists, most recently on Thomas Demand.

Currently, she is working on a book-length study about discourses of memory and commemoration in re-unified Germany, entitled Memories of War, Wars of Memory. Dr. Baackmann has been the Director of The German Summer School from 2004-2006 and will be directing this School again starting in 2010. From 2007 she has been serving as Director for the Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Program. In that capacity she has organized various Cultural Studies Roundtable Discussions: in 2007 on Memory, in 2008 on Terror (2008), and for 2009 a Panel on Ideology. In 2009, she also initiated the first Graduate Student Cultural Studies Conference on Fantastic Projections: Crisis, Memory, and the Imagination [note to AA: add corrected link for http://www.unm.edu/~fll/gc/Home.html]. In the Fall of 2006, she and David Craven (Art History) organized a conference on Modernism—Fascism—Postmodernism. Selected conference contributions have been published in Modernism/modernity (January 2008).

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