Christoph Ribbat

Professor Christoph Ribbat is a faculty member at the University of Paderborn, where he teaches in the Faculty of Cultural Studies, specifically within the Institute of English and American Studies. His department focuses on American Studies: Literary and Cultural Studies.

His research interests include contemporary fiction and nonfiction, cultural history, and visual culture. He is currently working on two book projects: A History of Waking Up and Crying Athletes. His publications demonstrate a particular interest in migration stories, German-Jewish history, and cultural phenomena as seen through specific biographical lenses.

Ribbat's most recent publications form a thematic series exploring migration and cultural exchange, with works including Becoming Kathrine Talbot: A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented (2024), Breathing in Manhattan (2023), and Like the Queen (2022). His earlier work In the Restaurant (2018) was shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and has been translated into fourteen languages.

• Leipzig Book Fair Prize shortlist (2018) for In the Restaurant

Professor Ribbat teaches courses including Rich People and American Fiction, Emotions and Cultural Studies, and Arrival City: Immigrant Histories. He has supervised numerous PhD students to completion, including Stela Dujakovic, Youming Hu, Christine Marie Koch, Alice Stiefermann, and Mareike Tüllmann. He regularly contributes to publications such as NZZ Geschichte and Pop: Kultur und Kritik.