Eva.Boesenberg@staff.hu-berlin.de

Research Interests

U.S.-American Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Economics and/in Literature, Gender Studies, African American Literature and Culture, South Asian Women Writers, Multiculturalism, Whiteness Studies, Basketball

Current Projects

Representations of Intercultural Couples in U.S.-American Literature (in the context of contemporary gender and racial politics)

The Cultural Significance of Sports in Transnational Perspective

The Development of African American Studies in Germany

W.E.B. Du Bois in Europe

Money and Gender in the American Novel