Katherine ArensKatherine Arens is a Professor of Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is also a Professor in the Center for European Studies and the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the Universityof Texas at Austin. She is the author of five books, including Empire in Decline (Peter Lang, 2001) and Austria and Other Margins: Reading Culture (Prentice-Hall, 1996). She has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Plato Award from the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK. Read More Read Less