PROFILE
Professor Anderson studied at Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania, and taught at Lock Haven University and Duke University before joining the Hunter faculty in 2006. Her research and teaching focus on German literature from the 18th-20th centuries, and her areas of expertise include the intersections between literature and religion, the First World War and German pacifism, and translation studies.
Her book German Expressionism and the Messianism of a Generation was published by Rodopi in 2011; other writings of hers on messianism have also appeared in both academic journals and edited volumes. Professor Anderson has also written about the role of the First World War in the work of two German-Jewish writers: Margarete Susman and Ernst Toller. She is the editor of two books about Johann Georg Hamann, Hegel on Hamann (2008) and Hamann and the Tradition (2012). Likewise, Professor Anderson has translated the Expressionist poet Elke Lasker-Schüler and the contemporary philosopher Peter Sloterdijk. Her latest project is about the German novella as developed and contested by Goethe and Kleist.
And finally, Professor Anderson co-founded Hunter’s Academic Center for Excellence in Research and Teaching (ACERT).