Jennifer Taylor

Associate Professor of German

Office: Washington Hall 314
Phone: (757) 221-3638
Email: [[jltay1]]

Background

Jennifer Taylor is an Associate Professor of German Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the College of William and Mary. Her research areas include German Film, Holocaust Studies and Women’s Studies. During her career she has given numerous scholarly talks and presentations at national and international German and Film Studies conferences, and she has published articles about the works of German Jewish Holocaust survivor authors Edgar Hilsenrath, Ruth Klueger and Jurek Becker. Her article on the contemporary German filmmaker, Doris Doerrie, ”American Influences on Doris Doerrie’s Screenplays,” appeared in the book, Straight Through the Heart: Doris Dörrie, German Filmmaker and Author in 2004. Professor Taylor has also taken part in nationally competitive faculty development seminars on German cinema and on Holocaust Studies (see below). During her sabbatical leave 2007-2008, she is editing a volume of articles concerned with national responses to the Holocaust. She is also beginning a research project on the very funny and prolific writer from the former East Germany, Helga Koenigsdorf.