Professors

Ursula Brumm

Department Chair (1963-1989)

Obituary for Prof. Dr. Ursula Brumm

Winfried Fluck

Department Chair (1989-2013)

Assistant Professor (1972-1979)

Staff Page Winfried Fluck

Renate von Bardeleben

Professor (1978-1980)

Currently: Professor emerita, Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophonie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Laura Bieger

Junior Professor (2007-2013)

Assistant Professor (2003-2007)

Currently: Chair of American Studies, Research Center for the Americas, University of Groningen

Junior Faculty

Stefan Brandt

Lecturer (1996-2005)

Currently: Full Professor of American Studies, University of Graz

Thomas Claviez

Assistant Professor (1996-2002)

Currently: Professor of Literary Theory, Director, Department of English, Universität Bern

Christof Decker

Lecturer (1994-1996)

Currently: Professor of American Studies, Amerika-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Ulla Haselstein

Assistant Professor (1989-1996)

Currently: Professor, Department of Literature, John-F.-Kennedy-Institute 

Wolf Kindermann

Assistant Professor (1986-1990)

Professor emeritus, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Sieglinde Lemke

Assistant Professor (1990-1994/1997-2004)

Currently: Senior Professor at the English Department, University of Freiburg 

Kathleen Loock

Assistant Professor (2013-2019)

Currently: Junior Professor für American Studies and Media Studies, Englisches Seminar, Leibniz Universität Hannover

Frank Mehring

Lecturer (2006-2008)

Currently: Professor of American Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen

Jürgen Peper

Assistant Professor/Associate Professor (1962-1972)

Professor emeritus, Institut für Amerikanistik der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

Simon Schleusener

Assistant Professor (2007-2015)

Currently: Assistant Professor, Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien

Joseph C. Schöpp

Assistant Professor (1970-1978)

Professor emeritus, Institut für Anglistik u. Amerikanistik, Universität Hamburg

Hanna Beate Schöpp-Schilling

Assistant Professor (1970-1976)

Further Information

Hannah Spahn

Lecturer (2006-2013)

Currently: Researcher, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Potsdam

Daniel Stein

Assistant Professor, DFG-Research Unit "Popular Seriality" (2013-2014)

Currently: Full Professor of Northamerican Literature and Culture, Seminar für Anglistik, Universität Siegen

Maria Sulimma

Lecturer, DFG-Research Unit "Popular Seriality" (2013-2018)

Currently: Researcher, Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen

Kirsten Twelbeck

Lecturer (2000-2002); Visiting Professor (2015/2016)

Currently: Environmental Humanities Coordinator, Augsburg University, Environmental Science Center 

Johannes Voelz

Assistant Professor (2003-2008)

Currently: Heisenberg-Professor of American Studies, Democracy, and Aesthetics, Institute for English and American Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Andreas Sudmann

Assistant Professor, DFG-Research Unit "Popular Seriality" (2013-2016)