Dr. Michael Lörch

Dozent

 

Research Interests

Class and Class Representation in Literature and other Media; Transnational Periodical Cultures; Modern and Contemporary North American Literature & Theater, Translation Studies, Social and Political Movements in North America

 

Publications

Politicizing the Scholarly Journal: Academia, Publishing and Politics in the GDR. Leiden: Brill, upcoming.

“The German Anglophone Press in the Long Nineteenth Century.” The Edinburgh History of the Transnational British Press in Non-Anglophone Countries, 1800-1914. Isabelle Richet et al. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, upcoming.

“Fachzeitschriften.” Zeitschriftenforschung: Eine Einführung. Sabina Fazli and Oliver Scheiding (eds). Bielefeld: Transcript, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839451137-031

„Die Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) als Beispiel für das Zusammenwirken von universitärer Amerikanistik und Verlagswesen in der DDR.“ Übersetzer und Übersetzen in der DDR – Translationshistorische Studien. Ed. Aleksey Tashinskiy, Julija Boguna, and Andreas F. Kelletat. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2020. 129-150. Print.

 

Education & Employment

04/2024 - today Lecturer at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (FB 06)

11/2016 – today Freelance Translator in Strasbourg, France

02/2024 PhD in North American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (FB 06)

06/2017 – 09/2023 PhD student and Lecturer in the Department of American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (FB 06)

06/2018 – 08/2018 Student of American Literature at the Bread Loaf School of English in Middlebury, VT, USA

04/2014 – 09/2016 Student of English (M.A.) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (FB 06)

09/2012 – 02/2013 Erasmus Exchange Student at the Université de Lille 3, FR

10/2010 – 02/2014 Student of English and French (B.A.) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (FB 06)