Department of English and Linguistics
American Studies
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Room 02.575
Jakob-Welder-Weg 18
55099 Mainz
Tel: +49 6131 39-22357
Fax: +49 6131 39-20356
E-Mail: scheiding@uni-mainz.de
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Research Interests
Early American studies, periodical studies, the history of book and reading, material culture, literary theory
Academic Background
Oliver Scheiding is Professor of American Studies and one of the directors of the American literature program at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. He earned his PhD in American Literature from Hamburg University in 1994. He has received grants from Fulbright and the German Academic Exchange Service for guest professorships at the University of Maryland, College Park, Washington University, Seattle, and York University, Toronto. He edits the journal Amerikastudien – American Studies on behalf of the German Association of American Studies. He is also co-editor of the monograph series “MOSAIC: Studien und Texte zur amerikanischen Kultur und Geschichte.” Currently, Oliver Scheiding is leading a research team on American periodicals funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). As part of this project he is mapping the extensive print, knowledge, and communication networks in the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Publications (Top 5)
- 2014
- Worlding America: A Transnational Anthology of Short Narratives Before 1800. Stanford: Stanford UP (forthcoming).
- 2013
- A Peculiar Mixture: German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press. (The Max Kade Institute German-American Research Series).
- 2012
- New Historicism and Discourse Analysis. In: Middeke, M. et al. (eds.): English and American Studies: Theory and Practice. Stuttgart: Metzler. P. 204-208.
- 2011
- Diskurse und Praktiken: Zur Literaturwissenschaft im Spiegel der neuen Kultursoziologie. In: Scheiding, O./ Obenland, F./ Spahr, C. (eds.): Kulturtheorien im Dialog: Neue Positionen zum Verhältnis zwischen Text und Kontext. Berlin: Akademieverlag.
- 2010
- Native American Studies Across Time and Space: Essays on the Indigenous Americas. Heidelberg: Winter. (American Studies – A Monograph Series).