Director

Kerstin Schmidt holds the Chair of North American Literary Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Scholarships have brought her to Yale University, to Indiana University/Bloomington, to the University of Wyoming, to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Life and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City as well as to the Universities of Toronto and British Columbia. In over ten monographs/edited volumes and over 30 essays, she has written on American literature and culture, focusing on drama and theater, race and diaspora studies, theories of space/place as well as on media theory and documentary photography. She is the also co-editor of Kritikon Litterarum and serves on the advisory board of U.S.-American and Canadian journals. She is currently finishing  a book mauscript titled Un/Doing Border in Writing: Re-Thinking Literature and Theory of the Black Diaspora. She's the editor of The State of Human Rights: Historical Genealogies, Political Controversies, and Cultural Imaginaries (Winter, 2020). Since 2024 she is the director of the Bavarian American Academy, she joined the board of the BAA in 2014.

Kerstin.Schmidt@lmu.de
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Mitglied des Vorstandes

Karsten Fitz is Professor of American Studies / Cultural and Media Studies at the University of Passau. Extended research stays have taken him to the University of California, Los Angeles, the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Harvard University. His research interests include Native American and Indigenous Studies, theories of cultural encounters, American cultural memory, visual culture studies, political culture in transatlantic comparison, and concepts of teaching American-related topics in the English classroom. He is the author of The American Revolution Remembered, 1830s to 1850s: Competing Images and Conflicting Narratives (2011) and co-editor of the book series Routledge Research in Transnational Indigenous Perspectives. He is a member of the board of the Bavarian American Academy since 2024.

karsten.fitz@uni-passau.de
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Marit Rosol holds the Chair in Economic Geography at the University of Würzburg since 2022. Before that, she worked for six years as Canada Research Chair in Global Urban Studies at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, and is still an adjunct professor at the Department of Geography. She was visiting scholar at the University of California Berkeley, the University of California Santa Cruz, the University of Toronto, and Concordia University Montreal, among others. Her current research focuses on alternative economies, critical agri-food studies, and the geography of alternative food. Previously she also worked on the topics of housing, participation, governance, and urban gardening. Regarding theory, she has made important contributions to questions of political economy, post-growth, (urban) political ecology, governmentality, and hegemony. Marit Rosol has published very successfully in the leading international journals in her discipline (such as Economic Geography, Antipode, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Urban Studies, Urban Geography, Cities, Agriculture and Human Values). She reviews regularly for over 60 international journals as well as for research funding bodies in seven countries. She joined the board of the Bavarian American Academy in 2024.

marit.rosol@uni-wuerzburg.de
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