Birgit Däwes

Birgit Däwes (* in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German Americanist .

Life

She studied at the University of Mainz (2000 Magistra Artium (American, English , German ), the National University of Ireland, Galway and Middlebury College . From 2000 to 2011 she was a research assistant at the University of Würzburg . In 2003 she was a Fulbright Fellow at ITD, Amherst College , USA. After completing her PhD in American Studies in Würzburg in 2006 , she was visiting professor at the Sun Yat-sen National University in 2007/2008 . From 2011 to 2013 she was junior professor for Native American Studies in Mainz . After her habilitation in 2012 at the University of Würzburg, she taught from 2014 to 2015 as a professor for American studies at the Institute for American and English Studies at the University of Vienna . She has been Professor of American Studies at the University of Flensburg since 2015 .

Her main research interests are Native American and First Nations Studies (especially USA and Canada), Transnational American Studies, Surveillance Studies, cultural memory / cultures of remembrance (especially 9/11), contemporary American novels, films and TV series and North American drama and Theatre.

Fonts (selection)

• Native North American theater in a global age. Sites of identity construction and transdifference . Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 3-8253-5277-3 .
• Ground Zero fiction. History, memory, and representation in the American 9/11 novel . Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 3-8253-5930-1 .
• as editor: Indigenous North American drama. A multivocal history . Albany 2013, ISBN 1-4384-4660-8 .
• as editor with Karsten Fitz and Sabine N. Meyer: Twenty-first century perspectives on indigenous studies. Native North America in (trans) motion . London 2015, ISBN 978-1-138-86029-2 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Birgit Däwes