Erika Quinn, Ph.D.

Erika Quinn earned her Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of California, Davis, and has been teaching history at the university level for twenty years. Professor of History at Eureka College, she received the Helen Cleaver Distinguished Teaching award in 2015. Her research interests lie in Central European cultural history, focusing on subjectivity and the history of emotions. She published her book, Franz Liszt: A Story of Central European Subjectivity, in 2014. She has also published articles on twentieth-century war widowhood in the Journal of First World War Studies, the Women in German Yearbook, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on two book projects: a microhistory of World War Two based on a German woman's diary, as well as a co-edited volume, Feeling beyond the Human, which investigates human emotional interactions with AI, machines, and animals in German cultural history. In 2019, Quinn was a Fellow at the Holocaust Educational Foundation’s Summer Institute, and she is a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Index.