Astrid Böger
Astrid Böger (born September 16, 1967 in Bremen ) is a German Americanist.
Life
From 1987 to 1993 she studied English , American and German at the Universities of Bremen , Düsseldorf and Duke University . From 1993 to 2000 she was a research assistant and lecturer in American Studies at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . After completing her doctorate “summa cum laude” in American studies in 2000 at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf with the dissertation People's Lives, Public Images: A Critical Study of New Deal Documentary Practices , she was a research assistant (C1) at the chair from 2000 to 2005 for American Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. From 2005 to 2009 she was Associate Professor of American Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen .
Since 2009 she has been professor for North American literature and culture at the University of Hamburg . In 2018 she taught as a visiting professor at the University of Wyoming .
Her focus areas are American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, media and cultural studies, visual culture, popular culture, gender studies and theories and transnational US-Europe culture.
Fonts (selection)
- Documenting Lives. James Agee 's and Walker Evans ' "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" . Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-631-48096-2 .
- as editor with Herwig Friedl : FrauenKulturStudien. Discourses on femininity in literature, philosophy and language . Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-7720-2417-3 .
- People's Lives, Public Images. The New Deal Documentary Aesthetic . Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-8233-4663-6 .
- Envisioning the Nation. The Early American World's Fairs and the Formation of Culture . Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 3-593-38790-5 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Böger, Astrid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Americanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |