A native of Berlin, Caroline Schaumann received her Ph.D. in German Studies at the University of California at Davis, with designated emphases in Critical Theory as well as Feminist Theory and Research. After teaching as a visiting assistant professor at Middlebury College, Schaumann joined the Department of German Studies at Emory University in 2002. She received a grant from the Holocaust Memorial Museum for developing Holocaust courses, and was part of the American Association of Teachers of German's TraiNDaF class of 2001, established to build future leaders in the field of teaching German. In 2006, Schaumann was awarded a grant to complete research at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach. She recently received a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers at the Freie Universität Berlin 2010-13.

Schaumann's current research entails the representation of nature, mountains, and mountaineering in film and literature. Looking at a transnational dialogue within Europe and crossing over to South and North America, her book project examines nineteenth-century depictions of exploration in the Alps, the Andes, and the Sierra Nevada. Here she considers the cultural shifts in the perception, written text, and imagery of mountains that not only reveal much about tourism, leisure, and the discontents of modernity, but also shed light on culturally constructed notions of wilderness and national identity. This research also resulted in the anthology Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century (June 2012), co-edited with Sean Ireton.  Schaumann's previous research project focused on the interaction of historical events, social change, and cultural memory. Her monograph, Memory Matters: Generational Responses to Germany's Nazi Past in Recent Women's Literature (2008), considers contemporary German literature and German-Jewish literature in the aftermath of the Holocaust with a specific emphasis on the changing discourse after German reunification. In addition to these books, she has published thirteen articles in refereed journals, books, and anthologies, and presented more than twenty papers at national and international conferences.

Schaumann is an affiliated faculty member in Jewish Studies and Film Studies and teaches an entire range of German and interdisciplinary courses at Emory, from freshman seminars and German as a second language to film and advanced courses on German literature and culture.

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EUEC Member Doris Zumpe died on February 7, 2017.  She was born on May 18, 1940, in Germany.  For her scientific training, she spent four years working with the future Nobel Laureate Konrad Lorenz at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen.  She then moved to London and received her PhD in the Institute of Psychiatry of the University of London in 1970 doing research on the effects of hormones on the behavior of rhesus monkeys in the laboratory of Richard Michael. In 1972, the entire laboratory moved to the Department of Psychiatry at Emory, with Doris receiving a recommendation for the position from Lorenz.  Doris and Richard continued their very productive collaboration until Doris retired in 2005 as Professor Emerita of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.  Together they co-authored two books, Notes on the elements of behavioral science and Neuroendocrine aspects of primate sexual behavior, and published countless scientific articles on neuroendocrine mechanisms associated with sexual behavior in primates.  She also taught an undergraduate course in human and animal behavior in the Biology Department from 1992 until her retirement.  Doris was an accomplished musician, playing both the cello and viola da gamba in a Lauda Musicam group locally.  In recent years, Doris had suffered from increasing dementia, the onset of which she attributed at least in part to the starvation she experienced in postwar Germany.  There will not be a memorial service as per her wishes.