About

Regina Schober is Professor for American Studies at Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf. She teaches American literature and culture from the early colonial period to the 21st century, with a focus on digital culture, intermediality, and theories of the global information age. She is author of Unexpected Chords: Musico-Poetic Intermediality in Amy Lowell’s Poetry and Poetics (Winter, 2011), of the (yet unpublished) manuscript Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk: Networks in American Literature and Culture and co-editor of The Failed Individual: Amid Exclusion, Resistance, and the Pleasure of Non-Conformity (with Katharina Motyl, 2017) as well as of Data Fiction: Naturalism, Numbers, Narrative, special issue of Studies in American Naturalism (with James Dorson, 2011). She was visiting scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2017) and at Harvard University as well as at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville (2008). Her research interests include transformations of subjectivity in the information age, network concepts, the quantified self, theories of reading, and discourses of failure. She is part of the DFG research network The Failure of Knowledge/Knowledges of Failure, of the DFG research project Probing the Limits of the Quantified Self, and of the DFG research network Narrative Liminality