Johanna Kluger, M.A.
Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
Institutional mailing address
Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie
Nordamerikastudienprogramm
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Rabinstraße 8
53111 Bonn
E-Mail: jkluger@uni-bonn.de
Research Interests
Romance Novels, Politics in Genre Fiction, Narratology, Queer Studies
Academic Profile
Since Oct. 2021: Ph.D., American Studies, University of Bonn
Dissertation (working title): "Contemporary US Politics and the Popular Romance Novel"
2017 – 2020: Master of Arts in English and American Studies, Universität Osnabrück
2014 – 2017: Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing, University of Winchester, UK
Since Oct. 2021: Lecturer (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), North American Studies Program, Department of English, American and Celtic Studies, University of Bonn, Germany
2019 – 2020: Student Assistant, Projekt "Masterkolleg Osnabrück", Universität Osnabrück
2015 – 2016: Student Fellows Scheme, University of Winchester
Chapters and Articles:
"'On Thursdays We Shoot': Guns and Gender Binaries in Regency Romance Novels." Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture. Eds. Teresa Hiergeist, Stefanie Schäfer. transcript Verlag (2024).
"Post-Trump masculinity in popular romance novels." Neohelicon (2024).
Talks:
"On Thursdays We Shoot": Guns and Gender in Tessa Dare's Spindle Cove Romance Novels (2011-2016) - Ladies in Arms: Representations of Shooting Women in Contemporary Popular Culture, University of Vienna.