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Martin Butler
Institute for English and American Studies
Literary and Cultural Studies
Prof. Dr. Martin Butler
American Literary and Cultural Studies
The study of American literature and culture at the University of Oldenburg is framed by a context-sensitive approach in research and teaching, which sets out to understand culture practices as embedded in specific historical and regional environments, in which they are shaped and to which they give shape at the same time. Whereas teaching covers different periods of North American literary and cultural history and focuses on a variety of media, genres as well as regions, my research particularly focuses on popular culture, specifically on forms and figures of cultural mobility in North- and Inter-American as well as Transatlantic contexts, digital media cultures, and, most recently, on the production of future imaginaries in popular narratives.