PD Dr. Alexander Dunst

PD Dr. Alexander Dunst

Department of English and American Studies
Chair of American Studies (Prof. Dr. Paul)

Room: Room C407
Bismarckstr. 1
91054 Erlangen

• Email: alexander.dunst@fau.de

Office Hours

Wed 9-10am and by appointment

Alexander Dunst is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Paderborn University and has held visiting appointments at the University of Pennsylvania and the English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad, India. His research and teaching focus on transatlantic cultural history, the digital humanities, and contemporary visual narrative. He holds a PhD in Critical Theory from the University of Nottingham and from 2015-2020 directed the early-career research group “Hybrid Narrativity,” funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). He is the author of Madness in Cold War America (Routledge, 2016) and The Rise of the Graphic Novel: Computational Criticism and the Evolution of Literary Value, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

For more information see: https://kw.uni-paderborn.de/institut-fuer-anglistik-und-amerikanistik/dr-alexander-dunst/