Johannes Maria Krickl

Johannes Maria Krickl is a doctoral researcher at the UA Ruhr Graduate Research Group 'Scripts for Postindustrial Urban Futures: American Models, Transatlantic Interventions' at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He holds a B.A. in Anglophone Studies and Scandinavian Studies and an M.A. in American Studies from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. His research interests stem from his thesis on cultural radical Randolph S. Bourne, focusing on transatlantic urban studies and American intellectual history. Current projects include 'Waterfront Reconquista,' examining postindustrial urban change in the US Rust Belt and German Ruhr Valley since the 1980s, analyzing spatial practices and hegemonic narratives in inland harbor cities.