Monica Tempian is an author, editor and lecturer whose work focuses on the inter-related research areas of Diaspora and Exile Studies, Memory Studies, Multicultural Literatures and German-Hebrew Studies. She has taught German language, literature and culture since 1996, first as a PhD trainee and assistant of Professor Hans-Jürgen Schrader at Geneva University, and from 2006 at Victoria University of Wellington, where she is currently Senior Lecturer. Her publications include Manfred Winkler - Catching the Wind: Poems; The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime: Migration, the Holocaust and Postwar Displacement and Ein Traum, gar seltsam schauerlich: Romantikerbschaft und Experimentalpsychologie in der Traumdichtung Heinrich Heines.