Elizabeth Mittman

Biography

Ph.D., German, University of Minnesota

Liz Mittman’s teaching and research interests include East German and postsocialist studies, film and visual culture, autobiography and life writing, memory cultures, and gender studies. She has published articles and review essays in Signs, Seminar, Monatshefte, German Politics and Society, the Women in German Yearbook, Die Unterrichtspraxis, and Foreign Language Annals. Her current book project, “Narrating the German Democratic Republic as a Woman,” explores the relationships between gender, voice, and the search for “authenticity” in representations of the GDR, both before and after unification. Other ongoing projects explore the relationship between music and cultural memory in post-Holocaust German and American contexts, and the comics of Anke Feuchtenberger.
She serves on the editorial board of the German Quarterly and has held a variety of leadership roles in the Coalition of Women in German. Liz is currently coordinator for the MSU German program’s short- and long-term education abroad programs. In 2024 she was recognized with the MSU Award for Outstanding Service to Education Abroad.