Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger
Laura Bieger is Professor of American Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
She is the author of Reading for Democracy (Metzler 2025), Belonging and Narrative (transcript 2018), and Ästhetik der Immersion (transcript 2007). Her essays have appeared in New Literary History, Narrative, Parallax, Studies in American Naturalism, Amerikastudien/American Studies and ZAA. She is a member of the DFG-funded Research Group “Infrastructure: Aesthetics and Supply,” where she leads the project “‘Race as Infrastructure’ and Literary Infrastructures of Resistance.” Together with Philipp Loeffler, she is currently co-editing two special issues: “After the Contemporary” for American Literature, and “What was Contemporary Literature? Or: The End of Periodization as We Know It” for Post45.
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