Dr. Valerie Weinstein

Valerie Weinstein, Assistant Professor of German at UNR, earned her Ph.D. in German Studies from Cornell University in 2000. Before coming to UNR, she taught for a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Williams College.

Dr. Weinstein's research interests include ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in German film, culture, and literature. She is currently revising her dissertation, "Mistaken Identity in Wilhelmine, Weimar, and Nazi Film" into a book with generous support from a Junior Faculty Research Grant and working on several articles on Jews in German film and on fascist aesthetics. She has also published on German colonial literature.

She currently teaches German language, literature, culture, film, and Core Humanities 202. In Spring 2004 she will be offering a course on Film in the Third Reich.

Profession
Assistant Professor of German Foreign Languages and Literatures

Contact
vwein@unr.edu