Faculty and Staff

Faculty and Staff

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Prof. Dr. Babette B. Tischleder
Universitätsprofessorin

  • Materiality
  • Obsolescence
  • Agency of the nonhuman

    Office hours during the term:
    Please contact Prof. Tischleder by email for an appointment

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Prof. Dr. Andrew S. Gross
Universitätsprofessor

  • Travel literature and tourism
  • Representations of the Holocaust
  • Modernist poetry
  • Cultural history of the Cold War

    Office hours during the term:
    Thursday 14:30-15:30 (16:30 when necessary)

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Natalia Maliuta, M.A.
Sekretariat
Office hours during the term:
Tue-Wed-Thu 14:00-17:00

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Phillip James Grider, M.A.
Wiss. Mitarbeitende

  • Early American Studies
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Material Studies
  • More-Than-Human Studies

    Office hours during the term:
    Please contact Phillip James Grider by email for an appointmentt

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Dr. phil. Vanessa Künnemann
Wiss. Mitarbeiterin

  • Ethnic Studies (esp. Asian American Studies)
  • Gender Studies
  • Middlebrow Studies
  • Popular Culture

    Office hours during the term:
    Please contact Dr. Künnemann by email.

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Susann Kupke (Köhler), M.A.
Wiss. Mitarbeiterin

  • History and Theory of Photography
  • The Post-Industrial City, Urban Studies
  • Cultural Memory Studies
  • Popular Culture

    Office hours during the term:
    Please contact Dr. Kupke by email.

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Prof. Dr. Brian Crawford
Lehrbeauftragter


Office hours during the term:
Please contact Prof. Dr. Brian Crawford by email for an appointment

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Dr. Jurrit Daalder
Lehrbeauftragter

  • Postwar American Literature
  • Creative Nonfiction
  • American Regionalism and Local Color
  • Cultural Studies

    Office hours during the term:
    Please contact Dr. Jurrit Daalder by email for an appointment

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Stephanie Sommerfeld
Lehrbeauftragte

  • 19th and 20th Century American Literature and Culture
  • Theories of the Sublime
  • Medial Self-Reflexivity
  • Theories of Modernity

    Office hours during the term:
    Please contact Stephanie Sommerfeld by email for an appointment

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K. Ilango Villoth
Lehrbeauftragter

  • Melville Studies
  • Book History and Textual Studies
  • Ontology of Literature
  • 19thCentury American Literature and Culture


Office hours during the term:
Please contact K. Ilango Villoth by email for an appointment

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Nasrin Babakhani

Project title:
"A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Literary Magical Realism"
Click here to read a short abstract of the project.
LinkedIn Profile

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Lisa Bölinger

Project title:
"Narrating Nonhuman Lives: Animal Subjectivities in North American Literature"

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Ashley Chandler

Project title:
"Daring and Disabled: The Power of Physically Challenged Superheroes in American Comic Books"
Click here to read a short abstract of the project.

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Mohan Ding

Project title:
"Chinese American Poets Avant-Garde or Nostalgia Poetics?"

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Phillip James Grider

Project title:
"Non-Human Agency in Early North American Media"

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Wiebke Kartheus

Project title:
"Museum Studies as American Studies"

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Bochao Liu

Project title:
"The epistemological transformation in American literary criticism (since 1990): poetics revisited and the Voegelinian paradigm"

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Susanna Fitzsimmons
Student Assistant
Prof. B. Tischleder

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Sebastian Groß
Student Assistant
Prof. A. Gross

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Jennifer Johanna
Tutor
Tutorial Lecture "A Cultural History of American Literature I"

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Meike Sindram
Tutor
Tutorial "Critical Theory"