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About Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ansgar Nünning

Ansgar Nünning has been Professor of English and American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Giessen, Germany since 1996. He is the founding director of the Giessen Graduate School for the Humanities and of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) as well as the academic director of the International PhD Program (IPP) “Literary and Cultural Studies” and a member of the Collaborative Research Centre “Memory Cultures.”

Ansgar Nünning has been Professor of English and American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Giessen, Germany since 1996. He is the founding director of the Giessen Graduate School for the Humanities and of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) as well as the academic director of the International PhD Program (IPP) “Literary and Cultural Studies” and a member of the Collaborative Research Centre “Memory Cultures.” In 2007, he was awarded the “Excellence in Teaching” Prize of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts of the state Hessen and the Hertie Foundation. He has published widely on English and American literature, cultures of memory, narratology, and literary and cultural theory. His most recent publications include Metzler Lexikon Literatur- und Kulturtheorie (Metzler, 42008), Introduction to the Study of Narrative Fiction (with Birgit Neumann, Klett, 2008), Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaften (edited with Vera Nünning, Metzler, 2003), Metzler Handbuch Promotion: Forschung – Förderung – Finanzierung (edited with Roy Sommer, Metzler, 2007), An Introduction to the Study of English and American Literature (with Vera Nünning, Klett, 42007), Kulturwissenschaftliche Literaturwissenschaft (edited with Roy Sommer, Narr, 2004), Erzähltextanalyse und Gender Studies (edited with Vera Nünning, Metzler, 2004), and Cultural Ways of Worldmaking: Media and Narratives (with Vera Nünning and Birgit Neumann, 2010). He is editor of the series Uni Wissen Anglistik/ Amerikanistik, Uni Wissen Kernkompetenzen, WVT-Handbücher zum literaturwissenschaftlichen Studium and ELCH: English Literary and Cultural History (both with Vera Nünning), MCM: Media and Cultural Memory/Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung (with Astrid Erll), and WVT-Handbücher zur Literatur- und Kulturdidaktik (with Wolfgang Hallet).