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Ulrike Zitzlsperger
Ulrike Zitzlsperger is an associate professor at the University of Exeter (Department of Modern Languages and Cultures/College of Humanities). In the 1990s, she was part of a team organizing meetings of Berlin’s Stadtforum and, in 1995, the exhibitions for the InfoBox at Potsdamer Platz. Her work includes the study of literary and cinematic representations of hotels, train stations and department stores in the twentieth century (most recently: ‘Between modernity and nostalgia: The meaning of death in hotels’, Forum for Modern Languages Studies 55 [2019]); the cultural history of Berlin with a particular focus on literature, film, marketing and architecture of the 1920s and 1990s; and the role of Heimat and ‘belonging’ in 1920s German and English literature (most recently: ‘Adrienne Thomas und Vera Brittain: “Walking the dead”’, German Life and Letters 72 [2019]).
Contact: Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Exeter, The Queen’s Drive, Streatham Campus, Exeter, EX4 4QH, UK.