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Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schmidt

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schmidt

Professor and Chair of American Literary History

Responsibilities

19th- and 20th-century North American literature and culture; modern/postmodern American drama and theater; ethnic literatures in the U.S. and Canada; diaspora studies; visual culture studies/documentary photography; media theory/radio culture; theories of space/place in literature, photography, and architecture.

Director, Bavarian American Academy (BAA)
President, Society for the Study of Contemporary Drama in English (CDE)

Contact

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Amerika-Institut
Schellingstr. 3 VG
D-80799 München

Room: S 208
Phone: 2180 2697

Office hours:
by appointment

Recent Publication

Kerstin Schmidt / Joost van Loon (Hg.): Herausforderung Solidarität. Konzepte – Kontroversen – Perspektiven. Bielefeld: transcript, 2024.

Julia Rössler / Kerstin Schmidt (Hg): From Page to Stage. Focus Issue of the Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, vol. 11, no. 2, 2023.

Kerstin Schmidt et al.: "Afroamerikanische Literatur" und "Gegenwart," Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte. Hubert Zapf / Timo Müller (Hg.), Berlin: Metzler, 2024.