Karin Höpker

PD Dr. Karin Höpker

PI

Department of English and American Studies
Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)

Room: Raum B7A1
Bismarckstraße 1
91054 Erlangen

Karin Hoepker is currently Guest Professor of American Literature at the John-F.-Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin (Lehrstuhl ehem. Ulla Haselstein). Her work focuses on literary knowledge production and the  function of fiction across media. She is specifically interested in the intersections of literature and the sciences, in aesthetics and practices of spatial production, and in the emerging semantics of risk in the nineteenth century.