Elisabeth Krimmer is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. Her previous publications include: Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe (2013); Enlightened War: Theories and Cultures of Warfare in Eighteenth-Century Germany (2011); The Representation of War in German Literature: From 1800 to the Present (Cambridge, 2010); In the Company of Men: Cross-Dressed Women around 1800 (2004), Hollywood Divas, Indie Queens and TV Heroines: Contemporary Screen Images of Women (2004) and Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities: Gender, Genre and Politics (2011).