Gisela Brinker-Gabler holds a doctoral degree in German, philosophy and education from the University of Cologne. She has taught in the department of comparative literature at the University of Essen, the University of Cologne and the State University of New York at Binghamton. In addition to a book on German women poets from the sixteenth century to the present (fourth edition, 1991), she has edited numerous texts written by women, such as Lou Andreas-Salome, Fanny Lewald and Bertha von Suttner.