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Carmen Birkle
Carmen Birkle is a professor of North American literary and cultural studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg. She was president, vice president, executive director and international delegate of the German Association for American Studies and currently serves as treasurer for the European Association for American Studies. She is dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Philipps-Universität (2017–23). Apart from being the author of two monographs – Women’s Stories of the Looking Glass (Fink, 1996) and Migration – Miscegenation – Transculturation (Winter, 2004) – and of numerous articles and (co-)editor of fifteen volumes of essays and special issues of journals, she is also general (co-)editor of the journal Amerikastudien / American Studies (open access). Her current work on a monograph is situated at the intersection of American literature, culture and medicine in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moreover, her contribution to a larger interdisciplinary project on ‘Geschlecht – Macht – Staat’ focuses on female presidents in US-American TV series. A monograph on Muriel Gardiner and an edition of Gardiner’s correspondence are projects gradually taking shape.
Contact: Institute of English and American Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Wilhelm-Röpke-Straße 6F, 35032 Marburg, Germany.
