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Teaching Fields: Contemporary German literature and culture, Nineteenth-Century Alpine Exploration and Mountaineering, Ecocriticism, Postwar and post-Wall German culture, German-Jewish literature, German cinema A native of Berlin, Caroline Schaumann received her Ph.D. in German Studies at the University of California at Davis, with designated emphases in Critical Theory as well as Feminist Theory and Research. After teaching as a visiting assistant professor at Middlebury College, Schaumann joined the Department of German Studies at Emory University in 2002. She received a grant from the Holocaust Memorial Museum for developing Holocaust courses, and was part of AATG's TraiNDaF class of 2001, aimed to build future leaders in the field of teaching German. In 2006, Schaumann was awarded a grant to complete research at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach. She recently received a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers at the Freie Universität Berlin 2010-13. Schaumann's current research entails the representation of nature, mountains, and mountaineering in film and literature. Looking at a transnational dialogue within Europe and crossing over to South and North America, her book project examines nineteenth-century depictions of exploration in the Alps, Andes, and the Sierra Nevada. Here she considers the cultural shifts in the perception, written text, and imagery of mountains that not only reveal much about tourism, leisure, and the discontents of modernity, but also shed light on culturally constructed notions of wilderness and national identity. This research also resulted in the anthology Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century (June 2012), co-edited with Sean Ireton. Schaumann's previous research project focused on the interaction of historical events, social change, and cultural memory. Her monograph, Memory Matters: Generational Responses to Germany's Nazi Past in Recent Women's Literature (2008), considers contemporary German literature and German-Jewish literature in the aftermath of the Holocaust with a specific emphasis on the changing discourse after German reunification. In addition to the book, she has published thirteen articles in refereed journals, books, and anthologies, and presented more than twenty papers at national and international conferences. Schaumann is an affiliated faculty with Jewish Studies and Film Studies and teaches an entire range of German and interdisciplinary courses at Emory, from freshman seminars and German as a second language to film and advanced courses on German literature and culture.