Dagmar C. G. Lorenz is Professor of
German studies and from 2006 to 2010 served as Director of
Jewish Studies at the
University of Illinois at Chicago. She teaches and publishes on
Austrian,
German and
German-Jewish literature and culture, and
Holocaust Studies. She was born in
Goslar,
West Germany and began her studies (German, English, Philosophy, Pedagogy) at the
University of Göttingen (Germany). She completed her Ph.D. in German (1973) and her MA in English (1974) at the University of Cincinnati. She taught at
Rutgers University/Douglass College (1974/5),
Ohio State University, Columbus (1975-1982 Assistant Professor; 1982-1988 Associate Professor; 1989-1998 Professor), University of Illinois at Chicago (1998–present; Interim Head, Germanic Studies 2002–2003), and held a Visiting Professorship at the
University of Chicago (2000). She served as the editor of The German Quarterly (1997-2003) and held offices with MLA, GSA, MALCA, and AATG.
Books
Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997), 432 pp.
Verfolgung bis zum Massenmord. Diskurse zum Holocaust in deutscher Sprache (German Life and Civilization, ed. Jost Hermand) (Bern, New York: Lang, 1992), 452 pp.
Franz Grillparzer — Dichter des sozialen Konflikts (Vienna, Cologne: Böhlau, 1986), 221 pp.
Ilse Aichinger (Königstein: Athenäum, 1981), 259 pp.
Edited volumes
Elsa Porges-Bernstein alias
Ernst Rosmer: Woman, Writer, Holocaust Survivor:a Critical Anthology (coedited with
Helga W. Kraft, 2006),
Transforming the center, Eroding the Margins: Essays on Ethnic and Cultural Boundaries in German Speaking Countries (coedited with Renate S. Posthofen (1998))
Insiders and Outsiders. Jewish and Gentile Culture in Germany and Austria (1994).