Christoph Houswitschka

Biography

Christoph Houswitschka studied English and American literatures, modern and medieval German literature and history at the universities of Regensburg and Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. In 1991 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Regensburg. He taught at the universities of Regensburg, Dresden, Northern Iowa and Freiburg. Since 2002 he has been professor of English at the University of Bamberg. He is a graduate of the European Master's degree in English and American Studies. He published on the late medieval literature , eg, "Family, Crime, and the Public Sphere," the anthology Freedom - Treason - Revolution: Uncollected Sources of the Political and legal culture of the London Treason Trials (2004), migration literature, film, and contemporary drama. He is a co-editor of the proceedings of a conference on law and literature in the 17 th and 18 th centuries ( literature, crime and legal culture in the 17th and 18th centuries , 1996), of an Introduction into English and American Studies ( Introduction to the Study of English and American Studies , 2nd ed. 2007),Displacement, Exile, and Diaspora. Papers given on the Occasion of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theater and Drama in English (2005), proceedings of the Anglistentag at Bamberg (2006), Literary Views on Post-Wall Europe (2005), and Healers and Redeemers (2010).

Research Interest

English Literary Studies