American Studies 2005

35th Annual American Studies Seminar:
Arts in America

Udo J. Hebel

Udo J. Hebel is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Regensburg. He taught at the Universities of Mainz, Potsdam, and Freiburg, and was Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Professor at Colorado College, Colorado Springs. He was a Visiting Scholar to the University of Michigan and Harvard University. He published Romaninterpretation als Textarchäologie (1989), Intertextuality, Allusion, Quotation (1989), Transatlantic Encounters (ed.,1995), "Those Images of Jealuosie": Identitäten und Alteritäten im puritanischen Neuengland (1997), The Construction and Contestation of American Cultures and Identities in the Early National Period (ed.,1999), Sites of Memory in American Literatures and Cultures (ed.,2003). Together with Martina Kohl, he edited Visual Culture in the American Studies Classroom(2005). His articles focus on colonial New England, nineteenth-century American festive cultures, twentieth-century American fiction and drama, African American drama and theater, German-American images, visual cultures, American suburbia, theories of American Studies. He served as Vice President of the German Association for American Studies and as Deputy Director of the Bavarian American Academy; he currently is a member of the Boards of both organizations.. He is the General Editor of Amerikastudien/American Studies and an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcesster, MA. At his home university, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Literatures