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Markus M. Müller is a faculty member in the Department of English Studies at the University of Trier, Germany. He has been teaching since 1999 and also contributes to the Summer and Spring Schools on New Literatures in English in Kiel, Berlin, and Frankfurt. His academic focus lies in Canadian and North American literature, cultural identity, gender studies, and mythologies.
His research interests include: modern North American literature and mythologies; gender and (trans)cultural studies; historiographies; fairy tales; poetry and/as music; masquerade and identity; and aging in contemporary fiction. He completed his PhD on identity in the works of Frederick Philip Grove and Robert Kroetsch, and a post-doctoral Habilitation on aging in American and Canadian novels.
His recent publications explore themes such as national identity, aging, Indigenous representation, and literary adaptation. Articles span from the 1990s to 2009, with a concentration on Canadian authors like Michael Ondaatje, Dennis Cooley, and Suzette Mayr, as well as topics like water imagery, body politics, and cultural borders. His work frequently intersects literary criticism with cultural theory.
He has edited key volumes including Passwords: Transmigrations Between Canada and Europe and Passages to Canada: Eighteen Essayistic Routes. He also contributes to major reference works such as Metzler Lexikon and Kindlers Literatur Lexikon.
Markus M. Müller is actively involved in academic training and outreach, currently preparing a teacher training program titled "Canada in the (European) Classroom." He reviews scholarly works in Canadian studies and participates in interdisciplinary academic initiatives.
