Birgit Däwes

E-Mail: birgit.daewes@uni-flensburg.de

Website: https://www.uni-flensburg.de/?id=18651

Birgit Däwes is Professor of American Studies at Europa-Universität Flensburg and currently serves, together with Carmen Birkle, as General Editor of the journal Amerikastudien / American Studies. She held previous positions as Professor of American Studies at the Obama Institute of Transnational American Studies (Mainz) and the University of Vienna, Austria, and as Visiting Professor at National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Her interests include Indigenous North American Studies, cultural memory, and the contemporary American novel. Among her publications are Native North American Theater in a Global Age (2007), Ground Zero Fiction (2011), and New Technologies in American Studies (co-ed., 2020).