Christine Rinne

Candidate statement

Christine Rinne (Ph.D., Indiana University, 2005) held two visiting positions before joining the faculty at the University of South Alabama. She is currently associate professor of German in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature, directs the International Studies program, and coordinates the Global Engagement Certificate. Her research focuses on reproductive labor and material culture through the lens of the maidservant in 19th- and 20th-century texts; she is currently exploring the cleaning lady’s growing popularity in crime fiction. She is drafting a monograph entitled, Soldiers Writing in Uncertainty: German POWs Prepare to Return Home, which analyzes the content and format of newspapers published by German prisoners of war held at two camps in Alabama from 1943-46. She has presented her research at numerous GSA conferences, served on the 2016 and 2017 GSA program committees, and is a member of the GSA mentoring initiatives task force. She would welcome the opportunity to actively engage in GSA’s conversation about how to best adapt to our evolving academic environment and develop new programming to better include scholars in all phases of their career.