Gerd Hurm

Gerd Hurm ( born June 12, 1958 in Oberndorf am Neckar) is a German Professor of American Studies and Head of the Trier Center for American Studies. Gerd Hurm is the artist's son Karl Hurm.

Life and work

Gerd Hurm grew Haigerlocher district Weil village, went into Weildorf and Haigerloch to school and put his Abitur at the Gymnasium in Balingen from. From 1980 to 1986 he studied English, German and Geography at the University of Freiburg. As an exchange student, he attended King's College London and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his MA in 1986, his Ph.D. in 1989 and his habilitation in 1999 at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg, where he taught since 1990. Between 1994 and 1995 he taught as a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA).

Since 2001 Prof. Dr. Gerd Hurm at the University of Trier operates. Where he teaches American literature and is head of the Trier Center for American Studies (Trier Center for American Studies, TCAS), which he founded together with Prof. Wolfgang Klooß 2004. 2002 he was a visiting professor at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. in the fall. (USA) and from 2006 to 2007 as a visiting professor of the Fulbright Commission at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon (USA).

His research interests include modernism and postmodernism (city literature, the Beat Generation ), Rhetoric and Media ( American presidential campaigns ) and national myths. In recent years he has turned to the American post-war period in articles and lectures about Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac or James Dean. In 2005, he participated in the exhibition project Coolhunters ( ZKM Karlsruhe). 2007 he published as editor of the interdisciplinary anthology Rebels Without a Cause (Peter Lang Publishing ), which stimulates a redefinition of this era. In the summer of 2009, he was co-curator of the exhibition Motorcycle: Acceleration and rebellion? in the European Art Academy in Trier.

Publications

Monographs

  • Hurm, Gerd. Fragmented Urban Images: The American City in Modern Fiction from Stephen Crane to Thomas Pynchon. Frankfurt: Lang, 1991.
  • ---: Rewriting the Vernacular Mark Twain: The Aesthetics and Politics of Orality in Samuel Clemens 's Fictions. Trier: WVT, 2003.

Publisher

  • ---: ( With Paul Goetsch ), ed. The Fourth of July: Political Oratory and Literary Reactions, 1776-1876. ScriptOralia 45th Tübingen: Narr, 1992.
  • ---: ( With Paul Goetsch ), ed. The rhetoric of American presidents since FD Roosevelt. ScriptOralia 54th Tübingen: Narr, 1993.
  • ---: ( With Paul Goetsch ), ed.. Important Speeches by American Presidents after 1945, English literature & English teaching 54 Heidelberg: Winter, 1994.
  • ---: ( With Ann Marie Fallon ), ed. Rebels without a Cause? Renegotiating the American 1950s. Oxford: Lang, 2007.
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