BARBARA KOSTA is Professor and Head of the Department of German Studies. Her teaching and research interests focus on autobiographical writing in German and Austrian literature, German cinema, and the visual culture of the Weimar Republic. In addition to multiple articles, book chapters, and edited books, her publications include Recasting Autobiography: Women’s Counterfictions in Contemporary German Literature and Film and Willing Seduction: The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, Mass Culture. Kosta received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Barbara Kosta
Professor; Head, Department of German Studies
Department of German Studies
