Rate My Professor April Eisman

Her research specializes in contemporary art and theory, focusing on East German art and its post-unification reception, alongside post-colonialism, post-socialism, feminism, and Marxism. Eisman has published over thirty journal articles and book chapters. Key publications include her monograph, Bernhard Heisig and the Fight for Modern Art in East Germany (Camden House, 2018); co-edited books Angela Hampel: Das Künstlerische Werk / The Artistic Work (2022) and Kunst in der DDR – 30 Jahre Danach (2021); and articles such as “Symbolic Erasures and Populist Discontent: The Post-War Rebuilding of Historic Dresden” (Monatshefte, 2022), “East German Art and the Permeability of the Berlin Wall” (German Studies Review, 2015), and “Painting the East German Experience: Neo Rauch in the Late 1990s” (Oxford Art Journal, 2012). She has received the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award (2023-2024), National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2018-2019) for research on Angela Hampel, and fellowships from the American Association of University Women, DAAD, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and U.S. Department of Education. Eisman co-founded the Transatlantic Institute for East German Art and co-organized the NEH Summer Institute “Culture in the Cold War: East German Art, Music and Film” in 2018. Her curatorial and scholarly contributions have significantly influenced the field of East German visual culture studies.