This interview is with Gail Finney, Professor and Chair Emerita of German and Comparative Literature. She was appointed in 1988 and retired in 2020.
Gail taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses in 19th- and 20th-century German and comparative literature. Her research interests include psychoanalysis and literature/film, nineteenth- and twentieth-century drama, feminism, and postwar German women writers. She has received numerous awards including an Alexander von Humbolt Fellowship, a Herbert A Young Society Fellowship and the UC Davis Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award. She also served as Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Personnel from 1997 to 2000, and as Faculty Assistant for Academic Personnel to the Dean of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies from 2007 to 2008.
She is interviewed by her friend and colleague, Jaimey Fisher, Chair & Professor of Cinema and Digital Media and Professor of German.