About the Rector of Universität Regensburg

Professor Dr. Udo Hebel is the tenth rector of Universität Regensburg. His term of office in Regensburg runs from 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2017.

Udo J. Hebel is Professor and Chair of American Studies at Universität Regensburg. He taught at the universities of Mainz, Potsdam, and Freiburg, and was a Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Professor at Colorado College, Colorado Springs. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at Harvard University.

He has published Romaninterpretation als Textarchäologie (1989), Intertextuality, Allusion, Quotation (1989), Transatlantic Encounters (co-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), Visual Culture in the American Studies Classroom (co-ed., 2005), Twentieth-Century American One-Act Plays (2006), Einführung in die Amerikanistik/American Studies (2008), Transnational American Memories (ed., 2009), Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies (co-ed., 2011), Transnational American Studies (ed., 2012). His close to 60 articles have been published in national and international journals of American Studies.

He served as General Editor of Amerikastudien/American Studies (2002-2011) and as Deputy Director of the Bavarian American Academy. He is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, a member of the International Committee of the American Studies Association (ASA), and currently the President of the German Association for American Studies.

He served as Dean of the Faculty of Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies, as Dean of Research of the Faculty of Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies, and as Vice President of Universität Regensburg.

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