Being a Department Head during COVID, with Barbara Kosta

An interview with Professor Barbara Kosta, Head of German Studies at the University of Arizona, about her experiences as a department head, her thoughts on the future of German Studies, and her insights about the academic labor crisis. She is also an affiliated member of Gender and Women Studies and Film and Television. Kosta’s research concentrates on gender and sexuality in twentieth-century and contemporary German and Austrian literature, culture and film. Her publications include Auf Deutsch! First Year German Textbook (Prentice Hall), Recasting Autobiography: Women's Counterfictions in Contemporary German Literature and Film (Cornell University Press), Willing Seduction: The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, Mass Culture (Berghahn Press).