Udo lever

Udo Hebel (born April 24, 1956 ) is a German Americanist and has been President of the University of Regensburg since April 1, 2013 .

Life

Udo Hebel studied American , English , German and pedagogy at the University of Mainz and received a scholarship from the German-American Fulbright Commission in Mississippi, USA. After the 1st and 2nd state exams for teaching at grammar schools, he received a scholarship from the State Graduate Funding Rhineland-Palatinate and received his doctorate summa cum laude at the University of Mainz in 1988. From 1986 to 1995 he worked as a research assistant and research assistant at the University of Mainz, where he received his habilitation in 1995 with the Venia Legendi in the subject of "American Studies".

Several years of study and research in the United States have taken him to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor , Harvard University , the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester and visiting professorships, among others. a. to Colorado College in Colorado Springs .

In 1995, Hebel was appointed to a professorship for American literary and cultural history at the University of Potsdam ; from 1996 to 1998 he was Professor of North American Literature at the University of Freiburg .

Since 1998 Udo Hebel has held the chair for American Studies at the University of Regensburg. Since then, he has turned down appointments to chairs at the University / GHS in Kassel, the University of Mainz and the University of Freiburg.

In 2003 Udo Hebel was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society (1812), Worcester, Massachusetts.

At the University of Regensburg, he was dean and research dean of the faculty for language, literature and cultural studies and from 2006 to 2008 prorector for studies and teaching. Since 2007 he has been head of early studies at the University of Regensburg.

As part of the research rating of the Science Council, Hebel was a member of the pilot process of the English / American Studies evaluation group.

On July 20, 2012, the University Council elected him tenth President of the University of Regensburg. His first term began on April 1, 2013 and ends on March 31, 2017. In October 2016, the University Council unanimously re-elected Udo Hebel for another, this time 6-year term.

research

Research priorities

American cultures of remembrance
American visual culture (especially painting / photography)
Transnational American Studies
American colonial literatures and cultures (especially Puritan New England)
German-American cultural relations
American Drama and Theater / American Cultural Performances

Publications

Udo Hebel's list of publications includes 15 books, several journal issues he edited and more than 60 articles from the interdisciplinary field of American studies.

Monographs / books

with Birgit M. Bauridl and Ingrid Gessner (eds.): German-American Encounters in Bavaria and Beyond, 1945–2015. New York: Peter Lang, 2018.
(Ed.): New England Forefathers' Day Orations, 1770-1865: An Annotated Edition of Selected Plymouth Anniversary Addresses. Heidelberg: Winter, 2016. American Studies Monograph Series 240.
(Ed.): Transnational American Studies. American Studies Monograph Series 222. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012.
with Christoph Wagner (Ed.): Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies: Approaches, Perspectives, Case Studies From Europe and America. Berlin / New York: De Gruyter, 2011.
(Ed.): Transnational American Memories. Media and Cultural Memory 11. Berlin / New York: De Gruyter, 2009.
Introduction to American Studies. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2008.
Twentieth-Century American One-Act Plays: Historical Survey, Genre Conventions, Major Representatives, Suggestions for Teaching. Academy lectures 29th Dillingen: ALP, 2006.
with Martina Kohl (Ed.): Visual Culture in the American Studies Classroom: Proceedings of the US Embassy Teacher Academy. Vienna: RPO, 2005.
Forefathers' Day Orations, 1769-1865: An Introduction and Checklist. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 2003.
(Ed.): Sites of Memory in American Literatures and Cultures. American Studies Monograph Series 101. Heidelberg: Winter, 2003.
(Ed.): The Construction and Contestation of American Cultures and Identities in the Early National Period. American Studies Monograph Series 78. Heidelberg: Winter, 1999.
"Those Images of jealousie": Identities and Alterities in Puritan New England of the 17th Century. Mainz Studies in American Studies 38. Frankfurt: Lang, 1997.
with Karl Ortseifen (Ed.): Transatlantic Encounters: Studies in European-American Relations Presented to Winfried Herget. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1995.
Intertextuality, Allusion, and Quotation: An International Bibliography of Critical Studies. Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature 18. New York: Greenwood, 1989.
Novel interpretation as text archeology: Investigations into intertextuality using the example of F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise. Mainz Studies in American Studies 23. Frankfurt / Main: Lang, 1989.

Magazine books

with Birgit M. Bauridl, Birgit M. Bauridl (Ed.): "South Africa and the United States in Transnational American Studies." Amerikastudien / American Studies 59.4 (2014).
(Ed.): Amerikastudien / American Studies 48 (2003) - 56.1 (2011).
with Wolfgang Hallet (Ed.): “Short Plays: Staging Women's Lives.” Double Issue Foreign Language Teaching 41.85 / 86 (2007).
(Ed.): Amerikastudien / American Studies at 50. Double Issue Amerikastudien / American Studies 50.1 / 2 (2005).

DFG project

From July 2010 to August 2013 Udo Hebel was the project manager of the DFG project “Speeches in memory of the colonial founding of New England as the origin of the USA from 1770 to 1865”.

Positions, memberships and awards

Offices

Chairman of the International Committee of the American Studies Association (USA) (2013–2016)
President (2011–2014), Vice President (1999–2002) and Member of the Advisory Board (1999–2017) of the German Society for American Studies (DGfA)
Founding Director Regensburg European American Forum (REAF) (2008–)
Editor Amerikastudien / American Studies (2002–11)
Deputy Director (2001–04) and Board Member (2000–07) of the Bavarian America Academy
Deputy Chairman of the University of Bavaria eV

Memberships

German Society for American Studies (DGfA)
American Studies Association (ASA)
European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
American Antiquarian Society (1812), Worcester, MA (elected member)
German Anglist Association
Modern Language Association (American Literature Section)
Collegium for African American Research (CAAR)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Society

Awards / honors / scholarships etc. Ä.

2009 Leader of a seminar of the European Forum Alpbach “Trust in America”
2008–13 ERASMUS visiting professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy
2005/06 Andrew Mellon Foundation American Studies International Initiative Grant
2003 elected member of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, USA
2001 Distinguished Max Kade Professor, Colorado College, CO, USA
2000 Peterson Fellow, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, USA
1992–93 American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellow, Harvard University
1984–1986 scholarship from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate Graduate Funding
1978-79 Fulbright Scholarship; Mississippi College, Clinton, MS, USA

Others

Hebel is a reviewer for the German American Fulbright Commission, the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Ebeling Fellowship of the DGfA and the American Antiquarian Society, the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is also an expert in accreditation procedures at German universities (AQUIN, AQUAS, ZEvA) and an expert in appointment procedures at German, American, British, Dutch and Austrian universities. He was a member of the David Thelen Award Committee of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) and the Advisory Board of the Gutenberg Research College at the University of Mainz.

Web links

Commons : Udo Hebel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Lever, Udo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Americanist, President of the University of Regensburg
DATE OF BIRTH	April 24, 1956