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Maria Luise Caputo-Mayr is Professor of German (emerita) at Temple University. Having taught in Italy, Great Britain, and the US, Caputo-Mayr has published works on German, English, and Italian literature. She is the founder of the Kafka Society of America and the editor and director of its journal. An author of publications of poetry, prose, and plays, she was also the principal author of the first bilingual, annotated Kafka bibliography, together with Julius M. Herz.