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Marte Döhrer has a Bachelor's degree in North American Studies from Freie University Berlin, with a focus on sociology, literary and cultural studies. She has a Master's degree in American Studies from Humboldt University Berlin. 

For her master's thesis she researched cultural representation of female villains with particular regard to their connections with moralized and biologically essentialist understandings of motherhood and the 'maternal.'
 

Research Focus

In her dissertation project she is researching the contemporary figure of the pop-feminist lesbian villain in popular visual culture.
 

Research Interests:
 

  • Gender Studies and Queer Theory
  • Pop-Culture Studies
  • Postfeminism and Popular Feminism
  • Fandom Culture
     

Marte Döhrer

Teaching

WiSe 2026/27:

  • American Literature I: From the Beginnings Through the 19th Century
  • Introduction to English and American Literary Studies

SoSe 2026:

  • American Literature II: The 20th and 21st Centuries
  • Review American Literature
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