Beth Ann Muellner

Department/Affiliation: German Studies; Comparative Literature
Phone: 330-263-2307
Office Address: 231 Kauke
Email: bmuellner@wooster.edu

Degrees

• B.A., Minnesota, Twin Cities 1988
• M.A., Maryland, College Park 1994
• Ph.D., Minnesota, Twin Cities 2003

Courses Taught

• GRMN 201: Intermediate German Level I
• GRMN 250: Advanced German: Texts and Contexts
• Literature of Migration and Travel
• German Cinema
• Gender and Modernity
• Literature of the German Middle Ages

Awards and Professional Memberships

• Modern Language Association
• AATG
• Women in German
• AAUW
• Nineteenth Century Studies Association

Publications

• “The Photographic Enactment of the Early New Woman in 1890s German Women’s Bicycling Magazines” in The Women in German Yearbook
• “The Deviance of Respectability: Nineteenth Century Transport from a Woman’s Perspective” in the Journal of Transport History

Notes

Muellner studied German literature at the Freie Universität in Berlin from 1988-1992. Before coming to Wooster, she taught at the University of Maryland, the University of Minnesota, Humboldt University Berlin, and Gustavus Adolphus College. She specializes in cultural production in the 19th and 20th centuries, travel writing, colonialism, visual culture, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature.