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Katja Kanzler

Professor of American Literature at Leipzig University. Her research is governed by an interest in how literature and related forms of cultural expression work as venues in which US-American society reflects on itself—in which it thinks through, rehearses, or fights over interpretations of social reality, and in which it makes social alternatives thinkable. Among other things, she has worked on literary negotiations of gender and its intersections with other relations of power, on the role of narrativity in processes of social meaning-making, and repeatedly on the poetics and politics of popular culture. Her publications include a monograph on the multicultural imagination in the Star Trek-franchise; a monograph on representations of women’s work in 19th-century literature and ‘para-literature;’ and several edited collections with topics ranging from narrative theory to reality tv.