Tara Hottman is a graduate student in the German Literature and Culture program. She studied German and Economics at Macalester College, and spent one semester abroad at the Goethe Institut in Berlin and at Universität Wien in Vienna. After graduating from college, she spent a year on a DAAD graduate study scholarship studying German literature at Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. Her research interests include 19th and 20th century literature, film and narrative theory.