Ruth Gehrmann, M.A.

I received my M.A. in American Studies from the University of Augsburg in 2014. During my studies I spent a semester at the National University of Ireland in Galway. In 2014 I moved to Mainz and worked as a PhD fellow at the DFG research group “Life Sciences – Life Writing: Boundary Experiences of Human Life between Biomedical Explanation and Lived Experience” for three years. This fellowship gave me the opportunity to spend a semester as a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, New York. Since April 2018 I am a lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies.

My PhD project focuses on organ transplantation in speculative fiction and employs a new historicist approach to interrelate works of different forms of writing. By engaging with life writing, for instance doctor’s autobiographies, works of medical research and fictional representations of medical procedures, I emphasize intrinsic ties between these publications and underline their shared interest in speculation.

My general research interests include speculative fiction, young adult fiction and medical humanities.

Contact

Ruth Gehrmann, M.A.

Philosophicum II
Jakob-Welder-Weg 20
Room 02.221

Phone: +49-6131-39-29229
gehrmann@uni-mainz.de

Office hours: by appointment