Simone Sauer-Kretschmer

Dr. Simone Sauer-Kretschmer is a Researcher at the Chair of General and Comparative Literature at Ruhr University Bochum. Her work focuses on literary analysis of spatial narratives, intermedial studies of postcards, representations of pregnancy, and cultural studies in modern and contemporary literature. She holds a PhD from Ruhr University Bochum (2014) with a thesis on literary brothels as border spaces in German and French literature.

Her research includes organizing interdisciplinary conferences such as Fulfilled Bodies – Staging of Pregnancy (2015) and Trees of Literature (2018). She has received funding from the Education and Science Foundation and the Mercator Foundation. Her teaching spans topics like post-9/11 American literature, intermedial postcard studies, and gender studies.

Key contributions include monographs like Bordelle. Border Spaces in German and French Literature (2015), edited volumes on postcards and pregnancy narratives, and essays exploring spatial theory and feminist literary criticism. She regularly presents at international conferences and collaborates with institutions like the University of Innsbruck and the Botanical Garden of Ruhr University.

Her professional career includes roles as a lecturer, scientific coordinator for visual/text cultures at the Faculty of Philology, and an Erasmus+ mobility program participant in 2013.