Autor/-in: Barbara Buchenau

Barbara Buchenau, born in 1968, is a professor of North American studies at Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany, where she is heading the research group »Scripts for Postindustrial Urban Futures: American Models, Transatlantic Interventions«, nicknamed City Scripts, funded by the VolkswagenFoundation, at the Universitätsallianz Ruhr (2018-2022). Her research is dedicated to the powerful alignments between literature and the land across the centuries.