Jens Temmen

Dr. Jens Temmen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of American Studies, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. His research intersects US Imperialism, Indigenous Studies, and Critical Outer Space Studies, with a focus on discourses of sovereignty and territoriality in 19th-century legal texts and contemporary Mars colonization narratives.

• PhD in American Studies, University of Potsdam.
• Co-editor of Across Currents: Connections between Atlantic and (Trans)Pacific Studies (Routledge, 2018).
• Co-editor of a Special Forum on 'American Territorialities' in the Journal for Transnational American Studies.

His postdoctoral work applies ecocritical and posthumanist frameworks to analyze Mars colonization in US literature. He was awarded a DAAD-funded visiting scholarship at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (2016) and received a PhD fellowship through the Research Training Group minorcosmopolitanisms at the University of Potsdam.

Key scientific awards include a DAAD visiting scholar grant and a Research Training Group minorcosmopolitanisms fellowship. His work bridges Transnational American Studies, Indigenous life writing, and planetary colonialism narratives.