Dr. A. Elisabeth Reichel

I am Assistant Professor of American Studies (Akademische Rätin) at the Institute for British and American Studies, University of Osnabrück. I have held research and teaching positions at the universities of Basel, Bern, Mannheim, and Bonn, and have been Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College and Georgetown University. My PhD thesis was awarded the Faculty Award 2019 by Basel's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHF 5'000). I have successfully applied for large researcher grants, such as a mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (USD 50'700).

I am the author of Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives: The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), which is available on Project Muse (Gold open access, funded by the SNSF): https://muse.jhu.edu/book/84467 . My second book project explores the literary history of economic liberalism with a focus on US-American utopian literature since the mid-twentieth century.

Research areas: 19th- to 21st-century US-American literature; economic criticism / economic humanities; anthropology and literature; (inter)mediality; sound studies; literary and cultural theory

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