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Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association - The series represents the culmination of four long-standing trends within the association. The first is growing tendency among members of the GSA to organize their work around common topics and to present their collaborations in series of panels at the association’s annual conference. The second is an effort, both to expand the GSA’s sponsorship of scholarly work into a broader array of disciplines and historical periods and to strengthen thematic connections between them. The third is the increasing collaboration at the GSA among scholars from around the world who share interests the society, politics, and culture of the German-speaking peoples, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The fourth is the GSA's burgeoning role as a venue for the introduction of state-of-the-art research and scholarship on the German-speaking peoples to an Anglophone audience.

Spektrum seeks to promote these trends by providing a venue for the publication of scholarly monographs and collections of papers originally presented at the association’s annual conference. Our hope is that the volumes of Spektrum, taken as a whole, will reflect the dizzying variety of GSA members in terms of scholarly discipline—cultural anthropology, musicology, sociology, art, theology, film studies, philosophy, art history, literary criticism, history, and political science—as well as methodology, subject matter, and historical period.