Position Title
Professor of German
Undergraduate Faculty Adviser of German
Elisabeth Krimmer is Professor of German Studies at the University of California, Davis. Her interests include gender studies; life writing (memories and memoirs); the representation of war, violence, and trauma; film; and German literature and culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Before coming to Davis, she was at Mount Holyoke College, Georgetown University, the University of Missouri, and Amherst College.
Professor Krimmer has authored and edited sixteen books and dozens of articles. She was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship in 2007 and a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship in 2014. In 2008, she was selected as one of four Chancellor’s Fellows campus-wide for a five-year term. In 2020, she received a Graduate Program Mentoring and Advising Award. Her article on castrati in German literature and culture around 1800 was awarded the essay prize of the Goethe Society of North America, and her article on warfare and gender in Kleist’s Hermannsschlacht and Penthesilea received the Max Kade essay prize for best article in The German Quarterly. She also received a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award for Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities.