Stefan Krankenhagen

Born in 1969, PhD in 2001 with a work about cultural forms of representation of the Holocaust at the Universities of Hildesheim and Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Between 2001 and 2005 lecturer at the Humboldt University in Berlin. 2005-2011 Associate Professor at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway, teaching German and European cultural studies and history. Since 2011 Professor for Cultural Studies and Popular Culture at the University in Hildesheim.

Main Research: Discourses of (Un-) Representability within Arts and Literature of the Holocaust, Popular Cultures and Pop Literature, Museum Studies.

Ongoing research project:

Exhibiting Europe. The Development of European narratives in collections, museums and exhibitions, as a joint project together with the Institute for European Ethnology of the Humboldt University and the Centre for European and International Studies Research of the University of Portsmouth.

(see www.ntnu.edu/ifs/research/exhibiting)

Forthcoming Publication:

Exhibiting Europe. The Development of European narratives in collections, museums and exhibitions, (Ed.), Cultural Unbound Special Edition, 2012; Europa ausstellen. Europäisierung als kulturelle Praxis (together with Wolfram Kaiser and Kerstin Poehls), Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau Verlag 2013.