The President of Universit?t Regensburg

UDO J. HEBEL is Professor and Chair (em.) of American Studies at the University of Regensburg. He taught at the universities of Mainz, Potsdam, and Freiburg, and was a Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Professor at Colorado College, Colorado Springs. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at Harvard University as well as Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA. He declined the offers of chairs of American Studies at the universities of Kassel, Mainz, and Freiburg.

He has published Romaninterpretation als Textarch?ologie (1989), Intertextuality, Allusion, Quotation (1989), Transatlantic Encounters (co-ed., 1995), “Those Images of jealousie”: Identit?ten und Alterit?ten im puritanischen Neuengland (1997), The Construction and Contestation of American Cultures and Identities in the Early National Period (ed., 1999), Sites of Memory in American Literatures and Cultures (ed., 2003), Visual Culture in the American Studies Classroom (co-ed., 2005), Twentieth-Century American One-Act Plays (2006), Einführung in die Amerikanistik/American Studies (2008), Transnational American Memories (ed., 2009), Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies (co-ed., 2011), Transnational American Studies (ed., 2012), New England Forefathers’ Day Orations, 1770-1865: An Annotated Edition of Selected Plymouth Anniversary Addresses (2016), German-American Encounters in Bavaria and Beyond, 1945-2015 (co-ed., 2018). He has edited and co-edited special journal issues on "Amerikastudien / American Studies at 50" (2005), “Short Plays: Staging Women’s Lives” (2007), and “South Africa and the United States in Transnational American Studies: From Comparative Approaches towards Transangulation” (2014).
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