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 the American cultural imaginary through the lens of Transnational American Studies, Popular Culture, Mobility and Gender Studies. She is currently a EU Horizon 2020 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. She holds a venia legendi in North American Literature and Culture (FSU Jena 2017) and a PhD in English literature (Heidelberg 2009). Her monograph Yankee Yarns. Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in 19^th-century American Culture (2021) examines the making of America’s national icon as an ant-sentimental figure. She has widely published on First ladies and visual culture and is currently hosting the Podcast LadyFiction at Amerikazentrum Hamburg’s Transtlanticist series.