Diana SpokieneDiana Spokiene is Associate Professor in German Studies. She is also affiliated with the Graduate Program in Humanities, and the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies. Her research and teaching areas are modern German literature, gender andcultural production, inter/cultural studies, and small nations in the context of globalization. Her publications include the edition of Letters about Berlin by Friederike Helene Unger, the co-edition and the first English translation of the 1803 bestselling novel Bekenntnisse einer Giftmischerin, Von ihr selbst geschrieben [ Confessions of a Poisoner, Written by Herself] (with Raleigh Whitinger) and articles on Jurga Ivanauskaite, Thomas Mann and Walter Benjamin, Friederike Helene Unger, and Yoko Tawada. Read More Read Less