Joseph P. Willis received his PhD from The University of Tulsa in Victorian Studies. After teaching for a year at The University of Tulsa on a postdoctoral scholarship, he currently is employed as an adjunct professor of English at The University of Tulsa and at Tulsa Community College. Willis has given numerous talks and presentations on West German Cold War concerns: Threatened masculinity and the arms race in Rainer Boldt's 1985 film series Das Rätsel der Sandbank; Transgressive masculinity in Vadim Glowna's 1986 Des Teufels Paradies; and, Threatened masculinity in Paul May's 1967 Das gefleckte Band. He has received the Certificate German as Foreign Language (Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache) from the Goethe Institute as well as a Fulbright student scholarship for teaching and research in Vienna, Austria. Additionally, he has received numerous grants from the Goethe Institute for language immersion seminars held in both Germany and the United States.