Carol Anne Costabile-Heming is professor of German in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of North Texas. She has distinguished herself as a scholar of twentieth- and twenty-first-century German literature and culture. She has published widely on Wende literature and post-Wende Berlin, including (with Rachel Halverson and Kristie Foell) Textual Responses to German Unification: Processing Historical and Social Change in Literature and Film (De Gruyter, 2001) and Berlin: The Symphony Continues; Orchestrating Architectural, Social and Artistic Change in Germany’s New Capital (De Gruyter, 2004). She has also published essays and book chapters on the authors Volker Braun, F. C. Delius, Jürgen Fuchs, Günter Grass, Günter Kunert, Erich Loest, Peter Schneider, and Christa Wolf, as well as on censorship and the Stasi in the GDR. Most recently she coedited (with Rachel Halverson) the volume Taking Stock of German Studies in the United States: The New Millennium (Camden House, 2015). In 2012 the American Association of Teachers of German named her Outstanding German Educator for the postsecondary level and in 2018 the Southern Conference on Language Teaching recognized her as Educator of Excellence