Congratulations to PD Dr. Birte Christ

The Department would like to congratulate PD Dr. Birte Christ on the successful completion of her Habilitation on 2 December 2020 and the awarding of her venia legendi in US American Literary, Cultural, and Media Studies from the Justus Liebig University of Giessen. She obtained the venia based on her study “Imagining the American Death Penalty: Representational and Racial Politics from the Antebellum Era to the Twenty-First Century.”