Posted inArticles Issue 8 2018-19
About Steffen Wöll
Steffen Wöll received his master’s degree at Leipzig University in 2016 with a thesis titled “American Spaces: Renegotiations of Cultural Geographies and Counter-Drafts to Spatial Master Narratives of the American West in Jack London’s Short Stories.” His research interests include historical imaginations and representations of national and cultural metanarratives, the literary construction of agency and Otherness, as well as religious and cultural radicalism in the US. He is currently employed as a research fellow at a Leipzig research center, pursuing a PhD that explores discursive spatialization processes concerning the American West in nineteenth-century US literature.