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Renata Fuchs

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Education

  • Ph.D. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Research

Professor Fuch's current project is of interdisciplinary nature and involves the fields of art, history, and literature and results in a collaborative effort of the UCLA Confucius Institute, Fowler Museum, Department of Germanic Languages, and Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. Fuchs’s role is to translate and analyze the autobiography of the German-Jewish photographer, Eva Sandberg Siao, and to prepare a conceptual framework that will be used when exhibiting Sandberg Siao’s work at the Fowler and other museums.

Book Reviews

  • Tobias Heinrich, Leben lesen. Zur Theorie der Biographie um 1800, Köln:  Böhlau, 2016, 199 pp. (Monatshefte, forthcoming)
  • Blackbirds in September. Selected Shorter Poems of JĂĽrgen Becker. By JĂĽrgen Becker.Translated by Okla Elliott. Black Lawrence Press, 2015, 145 pp. (The Southeast Review, vol. 31.5, 2016)
  • Jack Zipes, Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimm’s Folk and Fairy Tales, Princeton University, 2015, 267 pp. (German Studies Review, vol. 39, no.2, May 2016)
  • TerĂ©zia Mora, Das Ungeheuer, MĂĽnchen:  Luchterhand, 2013, 688 pp. (Edge Graduate Journal in German and Scandinavian Studies 2015)
  • Frauen dichten anders. Deutsche Dichterinnen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Ed. Marcel Reich-Ranicki. Frankfurt am Main:  Insel Verlag, 2013, 246 pp. (Focus on German Studies, vol. 21, 2014)

Publications

  • “’Ich trinke Liebe um stark zu werden’:  Bettina Brentano von Arnim’s Romantic Philosophy and Dialogue in Die GĂĽnderode” (Women in German Yearbook: Vol 32, 2016)
  • “’Soll ein Weib wohl BĂĽcher schreiben; Oder soll sie’s lassen bleiben? The Immediate Reception of Rahel Levin Varnhagen as a Public Figure” (Neophilologus:  Vol. 98, Issue 2, 2014)
  • ““Es war einmal ein Dorf, das hatte einen Brunnen und ein grĂĽnes Minarett”:  Storytelling and the Image of Muslim Women in Emine Sevgi Ă–zdamar’s Story Collection Mutterzunge,” (Forthcoming in Colloquia Germanica 2017)
  • “Louise Aston’s Dialogue of Defiance” (Forthcoming with Camden House in the volume Women from the Parsonage. Pastors’ Daughters as Writers, Translators, Salonnières, and Educators)