Anca Holden
Visiting Lecturer in German Studies

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Phone: 585-3413

Anca Luca Holden received her Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Georgia. Her dissertation, entitled “Cultural Identity in Contemporary German-Romanian Literature,” examines conceptualizations of Germanness in the works of Herta Müller and Richard Wagner. She is a Lecturer in the German departments at Smith College and Mt. Holyoke College since 2008 where she teaches introductory and advanced German language courses. She also taught German classes for American students in Erlangen, Germany in 2000. Recently, she taught a course on the Berlin Wall in literature. This fall, she will teach a course on 19th century literature entitled “Flights of Fantasy, Fits of Madness.” Her research focuses on migration and transculturality in German literature with a concentration on contemporary German-Romanian authors.

Holden has published book chapters and articles on Robert Musil, Ingeborg Bachmann, Bernard Schlink, Richard Wagner, Marianne Ehrmann, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, and Carmen-Francesca Banciu. Her article entitled “The Hybridization and Dissolution of the Banat-Swabian Cultural Identity in Herta Müller’s ‘Dorfchronik” was accepted for publication in a special issue of Literature für Leser on Herta Müller forthcoming in 2011.