Faculty and Staff
Faculty and Staff

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 Contact

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 necassary) Contact

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

Phillip James Grider, M.A.
Wiss. Mitarbeitende
- Early American Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
- Material Studies
- More-Than-Human Studies
Office hours during the term:
Wednesdays 11:00-12:00 or by appointment Contact

Dr. phil. Vanessa Künnemann
Wiss. Mitarbeiterin
- Ethnic Studies (esp. Asian American Studies)
- Gender Studies
- Middlebrow Studies
- Popular Culture
Office hours during the term:
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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. Contact

Lisa Bölinger
Lehrbeauftragte
- 20th and 21st Century American Literature and Culture
- Literary Animal Studies
- Extinction Studies
- Multispecies Studies
Office hours during the term:
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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:
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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:
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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.
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Lisa Bölinger
Project title:
"Narrating Nonhuman Lives: Animal Subjectivities in North American Literature"





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

Mohammad Sadegh Najjarzadeha
Project title:
"The Influence of Traumatic Violence on Individual and Collective Identity: An Interdisciplinary Discourse and a Literary Critical Analysis of American Postmodern Society"
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Susanna Fitzsimmons
Student Assistant
Prof. B. Tischleder

Sarah Vincent
Student Assistant
Prof. B. Tischleder

Sebastian Groß
Student Assistant
Prof. A. Gross

Sofija Popovska
Tutor
Tutorial "Writing Term Papers and Take Home Exams"

Matilda Marinko
Tutor
Tutorial "Critical Theory"
Prof. Dr. Barbara Buchenau
Dr. James Dowthwaite
Prof. (em.) Dr. Armin Paul Frank
Dr. Susanne Hamscha
Dr. Andreas Jahn-Sudmann
Wiebke Kartheus, M. A.
Prof. Dr. Frank Kelleter
Harald Kittel, PhD
Dr. Marleen Knipping
Dr. Kathleen Loock
Dr. Christina Meyer
Dr. Pierre-Héli Monot
Dr. Emily Petermann
Diana Rosenhagen
PD Dr. MaryAnn Snyder-Körber
PD Dr. Birgit Spengler
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Daniel Stein
PD Dr. Kirsten Twelbeck
Dr. Florian Zappe