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Dr. Dominik Ohrem is a Lecturer in the Anglo-American Department of the School of History at the University of Cologne, Germany. His academic work focuses on the intersection of American cultural history, human-animal relations, and gender studies, with particular emphasis on the nineteenth century.
His research explores how concepts of animality, wilderness, and nature have shaped American identity, particularly through the lenses of gender, race, and settler colonialism. Ohrem approaches these topics through a postanthropocentric framework that challenges traditional human-animal binaries.
His research interests include:
- Human-Animal Relations in American cultural history
- Nineteenth-Century US History and Settler Colonialism
- Gender Studies and Feminist Theory, particularly intersectional approaches
- Environmental History and the cultural construction of wilderness
- Postanthropocentric methodologies in historical and literary studies
Ohrem's scholarly output reveals significant trends in interdisciplinary research that bridges American studies, animal studies, and gender theory. His work consistently examines the relationship between frontier mythology, settler colonialism, and human-animal relations in nineteenth-century America, with particular attention to how race, gender, and species intersect in the formation of American identity.
His editorial work includes:
- Exploring Animal Encounters: Philosophical, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives (2018)
- Beyond the Human-Animal Divide: Creaturely Lives in Literature and Culture (2017)
- American Beasts: Perspectives on Animals, Animality and US Culture, 1776-1920 (2017)
- Special Issue: "Beauty in the Beast: Gender, Animals, Animality" (Gender Forum 55, 2015)
As an educator, Ohrem has developed numerous courses exploring American culture through the lenses of animal studies, gender theory, and environmental history. His teaching reflects his research interests, with courses such as "American Beasts: Animals and Animality in American Culture and Literature," "Fellow Creatures? Animals and Human-Animal Relations in the 19th-Century United States," and "White Supremacy: Formations of Race and Power from the Declaration of Independence to MAGA."
