Sonja E. Klocke
Position title: Professor in German, Nordic and Slavic+ Studies & Director, Center for German and European Studies & Director, European Studies 2023-2024
Email: sklocke@wisc.edu
Phone: 608.265.4766 or 608.263.1906
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German, Nordic & Slavic+

Originally from Germany, Sonja Klocke received her Ph.D. at Indiana University – Bloomington in 2007. After teaching at Knox College (IL) for five years, she joined the UW-Madison Department of German in 2012 and is affiliated with the Gender and Women’s Studies Department. Her research and teaching focus on German culture from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Dr. Klocke focuses on postwar and contemporary literature and film from the twentieth- to the twenty-first-century, including the legacy of the GDR and the Holocaust, women’s writing, minority literature, and transnational literature.
Her monograph, Inscription and Rebellion: Illness and the Symptomatic Body in East German Literature (Camden House, 2015), appeared in paperback in 2019. She also co-edited Christa Wolf: A Companion (with Jennifer Hosek, de Gruyter, 2018) and Protest and Refusal: New Trends in German Literature since 1989 (with Hans Adler, 2018). In 2019, she co-edited a special issue for Colloquia Germanica, New Perspectives on Young Adult GDR Literature and Film (with Ada Bieber). Currently, Sonja is working on a co-edited handbook on GDR culture and a new project exploring the portrayal of contemporary female terrorists as witches and as victims of modern witch-hunts. Dr. Klocke is also proud to serve as co-editor of the quarterly Monatshefte (with Hannah Eldridge, since 2019).