Univ.-Prof. Dr.Oliver Scheiding

Oliver Scheiding is professor of North American Literature and Early American Studies. His research focuses on magazine studies, short fiction studies, media history and material culture studies. He is author of Worlding America: A Transnational Anthology of Short Narratives before 1800 (Stanford UP, 2015) and the monograph The Early American Novel (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2003). His most recent book chapters appeared in The Cambridge History of Native American Literature (2020) and The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story (2023). He co-edits the book series Transnational Periodical Cultures (Leiden/Boston: Brill). He was awarded the Gutenberg Research College 2022/23 senior fellowship for his book project titled “Print Technologies and the Emergence of American Literatures,” forthcoming with Wiley-Blackwell. He serves on the board of the American Literature Association and edited the journal Amerikastudien – American Studies on behalf of the German Association of American Studies (2011-2019).