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Ina Batzke
Ina Batzke joined the University of Augsburg, Germany as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in American Studies in 2018, after she received her Ph.D. from the University of Münster. She is author of the monograph Undocumented Migrants in the United States: Life Narratives and Self-Representations (Routledge, 2019), which summarizes her research interests in life writing and critical refugee studies. She is also co-editor of the volumes Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture (Transcript, 2018), ‘Storied citizenship: Imagining the citizen in American literature’ (Amerikastudien, 2020) and Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene (Palgrave, 2021). Her main areas of research and teaching are life writing and autofiction, border studies and LatinX studies. In connection with her new project, she has recently become interested in feminist technoscience, ecocriticism/ecofeminism and how these concepts play out in contemporary speculative fiction.
Contact: University of Augsburg, Universitätsstraße 10, 86159 Augsburg, Germany.