Melanie Kreitler
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Contact Information Department of English and American Literature, Culture and Media Room: 333 |
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Information for Students
Please note that I will not be teaching at JLU between April 2026 and March 2028. Therefore, I am unable to take on any new supervision projects or take on candidates for oral or written state examinations during this period.
If you have any other queries, please feel free to email me or schedule an online or in-person meeting during my office hours via StudIP.
Melanie Kreitler is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Giessen and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Ghent, Belgium. She is the author of Mental Illness and Narrative Complexity (EUP 2025) and co-editor of Diversity Issues in the USA (with Greta Olson, transcript 2024) and the special issues “Mental TV” (Series 2025), “Queer Politics in Media and Legal Cultures” (Amerikastudien 2024), and “Illness, Narrated” (On_Culture 2021). Her current research addresses failed empathic engagement in narrative fiction across different media, including literature, film, and videogames.
Research Interests
- Film and television studies
- Game studies and videogame analysis
- Animation studies
- Critical approaches to empathy across media
- Narrative complexity
- Cognitive narratology