Christoph Ribbat's areas of interest include contemporary fiction and nonfiction, cultural history, and visual culture. He's currently working on a history of waking up. Most recent book publication: Becoming Kathrine Talbot: A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented (London/Chicago: Vallentine Mitchell, 2024). Earlier books on breathing, 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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A History of Waking Up (book project)

Crying Athletes (book project)

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