Doerte Bischoff

Doerte Bischoff holds the Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professorship in German at Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. Concurrently, she is a full professor at the University of Hamburg's Department of Germanic Literatures and chairs the Walter A. Berendsohn Research Center for German Exile Literature.

Education:

• M.A. in European Studies (Saint Louis University)
• PhD from University of Tübingen (doctoral work at University of Konstanz's 'Theory of Literature and Communication' group)
• Habilitation completed at University of Münster in 2009

Research Focus: Her work examines intersections of German-Jewish literature, Holocaust memory, material culture in literature, gender studies, transnational literary dynamics, and exile narratives. She co-edits the International Yearbook Exilforschung and contributed to the 2019 Handbook on Literature and Transnationalism.

Affiliations: Leads the Walter A. Berendsohn research center dedicated to German exile literature at the University of Hamburg.

Grants/Advising: No specific grants or advisee information provided in available texts.