Christoph Ribbat's areas of interest include contemporary fiction and nonfiction, cultural history, and visual culture. He's the author of a history of waking up, forthcoming in February 2026, and a book about crying and sports (also scheduled for February 2026). In 2024 he published Becoming Kathrine Talbot: A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented (London/Chicago: Vallentine Mitchell, 2024). Earlier publications include a book on breathing, on Wilbert Olinde Jr., one of the first US basketball pros in Germany, the history of restaurants, and neon. He writes regularly for NZZ Geschichte and Pop: Kultur und Kritik.
 

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Sekretärin -

Büro: J4.302
Telefon: +49 5251 60-3047
E-Mail: sonja.altevers@uni-paderborn.de

Büro: J4.304
Telefon: +49 5251 60-3046
E-Mail: hannah.fasel@uni-paderborn.de

Amerikastudien

Büro: J4.213
Telefon: +49 5251 60-3047
E-Mail: ribbat@mail.uni-paderborn.de

SHKs/WHBs

Hasna Mahmoud

Marie Smith

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Ph.D. pro­jects (com­ple­ted)

Stela Dujakovic: Limited Masculinities. The Aging Male in Contemporary US American Literature

Youming Hu: Images of Traveling in Emily Dickinson's Poetry

Christine Marie Koch: Salzburger Migrants and Communal Memory in Georgia

Ph.D. pro­jects (com­ple­ted)

Alice Stiefermann: Growing Up Poor: Documentary and Fictional Representations of the American Inner City (1991-2011)

Mareike Tüllmann: Writers, Readers, and True Crime: Negotiating Truth and Meaning in Contemporary American Nonfiction