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 (In den Tag: Eine kurze Geschichte des Aufwachens, Berlin: Insel, 2026) and a book about crying in sports (Stuttgart/Berlin: J.B. Metzler, 2026; English-language edition forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan, July 2026). In 2024 he published Becoming Kathrine Talbot: A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented (London/Chicago: Vallentine Mitchell). Earlier books 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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Tuesday, July 14, 2-4 pm
(no office hours on July 21)

 

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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