Assistant Professor of German
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B.A. Minnesota 1985; M.A. Maryland 1995; Ph.D. Minnesota 2003. Beth Ann
Muellner is an assistant professor of German and women’s studies
at The College of Wooster, where she joined the faculty in 2004. She specializes
in cultural production in the 19th and 20th centuries, travel writing,
colonialism, visual culture, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature.
Muellner earned her B.A. (1988) and Ph.D. (2003) from the University of
Minnesota, and her M.A. (1995) from the University of Maryland. She 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.Among her published articles are “The Photographic Enactment
of the Early New Woman in 1890s German Women’s Bicycling Magazines”
in The Women in German Yearbook and “The Deviance of Respectability:
Nineteenth Century Transport from a Woman’s Perspective” in
the Journal of Transport History.Muellner is a member of the Modern Language
Association, the AATG, Women in German, the AAUW, and the Nineteenth Century
Studies Association.
