
Degrees from Cologne University and University of Rochester, New York (M.A.); taught at University of Rochester and Ruhr-Universität Bochum; contributed, among others, to Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, anglistik & englischunterricht, Kongressberichte der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik and Die Neueren Sprachen; published The Sixties: American Culture in a Decade of Change and Challenge.
19th and 20th century American literature, postmodernism; cultural and economic history; regional studies; literature and history/politics and presidential studies.
John F. Kennedy in Literature