Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schmidt
ProEnviron Board Member
Rachel Carson Center
Professor and Chair of American Literary History
Research Interests
- 19th and 20th century North American literature and culture
- Modern/postmodern American drama and theater
- Ethnic literatures in the US and Canada
- Diaspora studies
- Visual culture studies/documentary photography
- Media theory/radio culture
- Theories of space/place in literature, photography, and architecture
Doctoral Candidates Supervised
Current Students
- Fabian Ebeling, “Créer la Création – Aesthetics, Responsiveness, and Mediality as Modes of Inquiry into the Dispositif of Smart Cities”
- Gustavo Adolfo Gutierrez Hernandez, “Writing Caribbean Pluralities”
- Johanna Lederer, “Making Place for Indigeneity: Imaginative Practices in Speculative Fiction and Art”
- Fritz Bommas, “What’s Real in the Capitalocene: Realist Form, Crisis, and Consensus in Contemporary North American Novels”
- Sophia Hörl, “Of Shamescapes and Otherwheres: Imagined Spaces of (In)justice in African American Fiction, Art, and Urban Design since the 1960s”
Past Students
- Sabine Aretz, “(Re-)Placing the #MeToo Movement: Power, Shame, and Autobiographical Narratives”
- Julia Rössler, “Drama after Postmodernism: New Aesthetics of Mimesis on the Contemporary Stage”
- Nathalie Aghoro, “Sounding the American Novel: Voice in Twenty-First Century Fiction”
- Nicole Schneider, “Visual Protest, Viral Images, and Virtual Participation: Protest and Photography in the Contemporary Movement for Black Lives”
- Ulla Stackmann, “The Sonic Realness of Postwar Audiopoetry: Practices and Cultural Contexts of Poetry on Sound Carriers (c. 1950s—1980s)”