Karin Bettina Friedl
Karin Bettina Friedl (* 1940 ) is a German Americanist.
Life
She studied English , German and art history (1971: doctorate in English ( Heidelberg ) and habilitation in American studies ( Tübingen )). She taught at the Universities of Heidelberg, Mainz - Germersheim , Mannheim , Tübingen, Stuttgart and Greifswald , in 1996 and 2002 as a visiting professor at Smith College and from 1993 to 2005 as a professor of American literature and culture with a focus on visual culture studies and gender studies at the University of Hamburg . From 1973 to 1974 she was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University . From 2001 to 2002 she was a fellow at the Center for the History of American Civilization at Harvard University .
She specializes in American literature and painting, documentary film, the phenomenon of fashion, and the art of clothing in American literature and culture.
Fonts (selection)
- On to Victory. Propaganda Plays of the Woman Suffrage Movement . Boston 1987, ISBN 1-55553-018-4 .
- as editor with Alfred Weber : Film and Literature in America . Darmstadt 1988, ISBN 3-534-09405-0 .
- as editor: Joseph C. Schöpp . Deciphering the Darkness of the Past. Essays on American Literature . Trier 1999, ISBN 3-88476-381-4 .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Friedl, Karin Bettina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Friedl, Bettina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Americanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |