Alan Luft is Associate Professor of Art, Photography & Video at Edgewood College Madison, WI. He is the great-grandson of German immigrants who settled in the rural township of Fredonia, Wisconsin, a region populated by German-Americans. His family farmed in this area for over 150 years. German was also spoken in the home, a linguistic practice that ended with the death of his paternal grandmother in 1979.
Stephen Brockmann is Professor of German with courtesy appointments in English and History, Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.