Ansgar Nünning has been Professor of English and American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Giessen, Germany since 1996. He is the founding director of the Giessen Graduate School for the Humanities and of the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC) as well as the academic director of the International Ph.D. Program (IPP) “Literary and Cultural Studies” and a member of the Collaborative Research Center “Memory Cultures.” He has published widely on English and American literature, cultures of memory, narratology, and literary and cultural theory. His most recent book publications include: Metzler Lexikon Literatur- und Kulturtheorie (4th edition 2008); Introduction to the Study of Narrative Fiction (with Birgit Neumann, 2008); Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaften (edited with Vera Nünning, 2003); Medienereignisse der Moderne (edited with Friedrich Lenger, 2008); Metzler Handbuch Promotion: Forschung—Förderung—Finanzierung (edited with Roy Sommer, 2007); Englische Literatur unterrichten: Grundlagen und Methoden (with Carola Surkamp, 2006); An Introduction to the Study of English and American Literature (with Vera Nünning, 2004, 4th edition 2007); Kulturwissenschaftliche Literaturwissenschaft (edited with Roy Sommer, 2004); Erzähltextanalyse und Gender Studies (edited with Vera Nünning, 2004). He is editor of the series Uni Wissen Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Uni Wissen Kernkompetenzen; WVT-Handbücher zum literaturwissenschaftlichen Studium and ELCH: English Literary and Cultural History (both with Vera Nünning); MCM: Media and Cultural Memory/Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung (with Astrid Erll); and WVT-Handbücher zur Literatur- und Kulturdidaktik (with Wolfgang Hallet).
