PD Dr. Stefanie Schäfer

PD Dr. Stefanie Schäfer

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

Room: Room C 407
Bismarckstr. 1
91054 Erlangen

• Email: stef.schaefer@fau.de

Office Hours: by appointment

Stefanie Schäfer is a scholar of American and Canadian Studies specializing in figurations of the national in American literature and culture. She has been guest professor of American Studies at Erlangen (2018-19 and 2022) and Augsburg (2020) and is currently a Marie-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Vienna, where she works on the project “Transatlantic Cowgirl Mobilities” and serves as Executive Director of UVienna’s Centre for Canadian Studies. Stefanie holds a venia legendi in North American Literature and Culture (FSU Jena) and a PhD in English literature (Heidelberg). Her monograph Yankee Yarns. Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in 19th-century American Culture (Edinburgh UP 2021) examines the making of America’s national icon as an anti-sentimental figure. She has published on Western cultures and First Ladies, and she hosts “LadyFiction”, a Podcast produced by Amerikazentrum Hamburg.