Sabine Hake

Professor and Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture in the Department of Germanic Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. A cultural historian working on nineteenth and twentieth century Germany, she is the author of seven monographs, including "Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin" (2008) and "Screen Nazis: Cinema, History, and Democracy" (2012). Her most recent book, "The Proletarian Dream: Socialism, Culture, and Emotion in Germany 1863-1933", appeared in fall 2017 and won the 2016-17 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures. She is currently writing the second volume with the title "The German Worker: Reimagining Class in the Third Reich".