PD Dr. Alexander Dunst
PD Dr. Alexander Dunst
Department of English and American Studies
Chair of American Studies (Prof. Dr. Paul)
Bismarckstr. 1
91054 Erlangen
- Email: alexander.dunst@fau.de
Office Hours
Wed 9-10am
(please register in advance via e-mail)
Alexander Dunst studied English and American Studies in Graz and Vienna and worked as a political journalist before completing a PhD in Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham. In 2021, he received his Habilitation in American Studies and Digital Humanities at Paderborn University after having directed the early-career research group “Hybrid Narrativity” there from 2015 to 2020. His research and teaching focus on US-American literature (19-21c) and transatlantic cultural history, and he is the author of Madness in Cold War America (Routledge, 2016) and The Rise of the Graphic Novel: Computational Criticism and the Evolution of Literary Value (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Currently, he is working on a monograph on aesthetic gentrification and a volume of literary essays on memory culture that draws on the lives of his grandparents during national socialism.