Birgit Hebel-Bauridl

Birgit Hebel-Bauridl is a Professor of American Studies at the University of Regensburg, where she also serves as Managing Director of the Regensburg European American Forum (REAF). Her research focuses on embodied memory, multiscalar European-American cultural negotiations, and post-1945 German-American entanglements, with a special interest in critical regionalism, transgenerational trauma, and resistant epistemologies. She co-headed the DFG-funded research network Cultural Performance in Transnational American Studies (2015–2018) and currently leads a habilitation project on memory at the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp.

• Key Affiliations:
  • Board of Directors, Leibniz ScienceCampus “Europe and America in the Modern World” (2019–)
  • Member, Center for Commemorative Cultures (UR & Flossenbürg Memorial)
• Teaching & Leadership:
  • Directed transnational online courses on identity performance (2012–2014)
  • Chaired American Studies Association (ASA) committees (2013–2015)

Her publications include a monograph on Black performance poetry (2013) and co-edited volumes on transnational performance (2016) and post-war German-American encounters (2018). Recent awards include DAAD and Gleichstellungsprogramm conference grants, with Fulbright (2012) and DFG research network funding (2015–2018) highlights.