Prof. Dr. Alfred Hornung

Fields of Research
Transnational American Studies, Transcultural Life Writing and Ecology, Life Writing and Life Science

Academic Background
Alfred Hornung is Professor and Chair of English and American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. He held guest professorships at various European, American, Canadian, and Chinese universities. He was a fellow at Harvard, Yale, the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, and is a member of the Center for Cross-cultural studies at Peking University. His publications are in the field of modernism, postmodernism, life writing, intercultural, and transnational studies. He is editor and on the editorial board of several journals, including Journal of Transnational American Studies, Atlantic Studies and Contemporary Foreign Literature (Nanjing). He served as President of MESEA and of the German Association for American Studies. Since 2008 he has been an elected member of the review board for European and North American literature of the German Research Foundation. From 2011-13 he chaired the National Committee for Research Rating of English and American Studies for the Wissenschaftsrat. In 2013 he received the Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize of the American Studies Association for outstanding contributions to American Studies.

Publications (Top 5)

2014

(with Donald Pease, ed.:) “ChinAmerica.” Transnational American Studies in Theory and Practice. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press.

2013

(with Carsten Heinze) Medialisierungsformen des (Auto-)Biographischen. Konstanz: UVK.

2013

(with Zhao Baisheng) Ecology and Life Writing. Heidelberg, Winter Verlag.

2013

American Lives. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag.

2009

(Coral Ann Howells and Eva-Marie Kröller, eds.:) “Transcultural Life Writing.” The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. P. 536-55.