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David James Prickett received his PhD from the Department of German Studies of the University of Cincinnati in 2003. He is presently an associate member of the Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG) at the Humboldt University, Berlin and teaches at the Europa-Universität Frankfurt (Oder), the Freie Universität Berlin and the Universität Potsdam. His current research interests include gender studies, body aesthetics, gendered violence, and the literature, film and visual arts of Weimar Germany. Recent publications include: “Double Exposure: Photography, Hegemony, and Masculinity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany”, in Masculinities and German Culture, special issue of Cultural Exchange in German Literature (2008), “The Soldier Figure in Discourses on Masculinity in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany”, in Discourses on Masculinity in German Literature, special issue of seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 44.1 (2008), and “Magnus Hirschfeld and the Photographic (Re)Invention of the ‘Third Sex’”, in Visual Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany: Text as Spectacle (2006).