About the Author

Agatha Schwartz is associate professor of German at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Ottawa. She is the author of Shifting Voices: Feminist Thought and Women's Writing in Fin-de-Siecle Austria and Hungary (McGill- Queen's University Press, 2008) and co-editor, with Luise von Flotow, of The Third Shore: Women's Fiction from East Central Europe (Northwestern University Press, 2006).