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Susann Köhler, M.A.

Susann Köhler is currently working as an assistant Professor in American Studies at the University of Göttingen. For further information click here.
Her completed dissertation in 2019 was titled “Picturing the Rustbelt: Deindustrialization, American Ruin, and Urban Change in Postindustrial Photography”.

Katrin Horn is currently an assistant professor in American Studies/Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bayreuth, where she is also directing the DFG-funded research project “Economy and Epistemology of Gossip in Nineteenth- and early Twentieth-Century US-American Literature and Culture”. For a CV and contact details, click here. For up-to-date information about her current research, please visit archivalgossip.com or follow @archivalgossip.
Katrin Horn has received her PhD in American Studies from FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2016. The revised version of her thesis was published by Palgrave in 2017, titled “Women, Camp, and Popular Culture: Serious Excess”.

Carmen Dexl is currently working as an assistant professor in American Studies at the University of Regensburg. For further information click here.

Lena Gotteswinter is currently working at American Studies at the University of Regensburg. For further information click here.
She is currently working on her dissertation with the working title ‘The Diversification of the Hipster.’

Selina Foltinek is currently working at American Studies/Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bayreuth. For further information click here.
Her dissertation is titled “Knowledge Production and Negotiations of Agency in Semi-Autobiographical Fiction about Female Same-Sex Relationships”.

Sebastian Honert is currently working as an research assistant at Institut für Lern-Innovation at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. For further information click here.

Loredana is currently working at an SFB research project “Cultures of Vigilance” at the LMU München.
She is currently working on her dissertation with the working title “From Self-Help to Human Entrancement: Contemporary North American Science and Fiction”. For further information click here.

Thalia Prokopiou was offered one of the doctoral scholarships at Leibniz Science Campus, Regensburg to begin on 1 March 2020. For further Information click here.

Gustavo Gutierrez will be working at the GRK 2589 “Practicing Place. Soziokulturelle Praktiken und epistemische Konfigurationen” in Eichstätt/Ingolstadt starting in April 2021. For further information click here.
His dissertation is titled “Caribbean Literature: A Place for Pluralities”