Anjeana Hans | e-mail
Newcomb 303 C | 504-862-3095

Assistant Professor of German

Anjeana Hans completed her Ph.D. in German Literature and Language at Harvard in 2005.  As an American from a bi-racial background who was born and raised in Germany, she has always been fascinated by questions of identity and cultural difference, and these issues have informed both her teaching and her research.  She aims to use literature and film to gain a greater understanding of cultural setting and human psychology.  Her dissertation, “Defining Desires:  Homosexual Identity and German Discourse 1900-1933,” examined sexual and gender identity by tracing its cultural and discursive construction in German culture and literature from the beginning of the 20th century.  Her current research examines the manner in which horror films of the Weimar period symbolically represent the trauma of war and modernity.  As part of the two book-projects associated with these continuing research interests, she has articles forthcoming which engage with both.

In addition to teaching language courses at all levels, including ones incorporating a service learning component, she teaches courses on filmic and literary output of the 20th century, among them one on Nazi Cinema (taught in English) which examines not only the films produced under the Nazi regime, but also post-war American and German filmic representations of the Nazi era.