Anjeana Hans is associate professor and chair of German Studies at Wellesley College.
She teaches literature and film courses as well as language courses. Pedagogically, she is interested in questions of inclusivity and intercultural competence. Her research focuses on questions of gender, ethnicity, and identity, as well as on exile and trauma, in German and Austrian pre-1945 film and culture. Her book Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic (Wayne State UP, 2014) traced how uncanny films of the era figured the female body as the site at which anxieties about changing gender roles are articulated and acted out. She is currently working on a project focusing on independent films produced in Austria between 1933 and 1937 by filmmakers unable to continue working in Germany.
