Carmen Birkle
Biographic Data
| ID | 4206536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carmen Birkle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carmen |
| FAMILY NAME | Birkle |
| SIGNATURE | BIRKLE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philipps University of Marburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5604-4649 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Amerikastudien / American Studies” at Seventy: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Women Who Rocked the World: Heroines of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century US America
To the Only "Super Global Professor of American Studies" I Know
.
Pandemic Patterns: The Cultural Semiotics of Medical Crisis
Pandemics as the great levellers? Class, community and capital in US-American short stories
This article focuses on literature’s potential for healing – both medical and sociopolitical – in times of severe crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Affect is an important literary tool to make people aware of social inequalities, in particular reading or writing short stories with the experience of a simultaneous real-life pandemic. Reading is an embodied act through which the reader enters into a dialogue with both the author and the text. E…
“Democracy Is Fragile”: A Foreword
European Perspectives on the United States in Times of Populism, Protests, and the Pandemic
Why the citizens of the United States picked the wrong president in 2016 is gradually becoming more obvious.In the last four years, Donald J. Trump has polarized his country more than any other president before him.He has succeeded in dividing the nation into those who are with him-his fans, mostly Republicans-and those who are against him-mostly Democrats.His selfabsorbed mentality does not allow him to recognize the truth in Abraham Lincoln's p…
Introduction: Approaches to New Technologies in American Studies: Programmatic Considerations
Technology tends to represent a thrust toward the future, an accelerated promise of microrefined systems and networks, deeper probes into the way we live and think. Technology claims the future on our behalf.
Introduction: Waging Health: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Wars
Thinking of war from a U.S.-American perspective will almost immediately evoke associations of male soldiers fighting heroic battles for a good cause such as democracy and/or the liberation of people from dictatorships, tyrannies, and torture. However, as more detailed and on-site news coverage has increasingly shown, this vision is entirely too limited. Among many possible revisionist perspectives is that of those women who have been involved in…
Native Americans and First Nations: A Transnational Challenge
Pandemics as the great levellers? Class, community and capital in US-American short stories
This article focuses on literature’s potential for healing – both medical and sociopolitical – in times of severe crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Affect is an important literary tool to make people aware of social inequalities, in particular reading or writing short stories with the experience of a simultaneous real-life pandemic. Reading is an embodied act through which the reader enters into a dialogue with both the author and the text. E…
Native Americans and First Nations: A Transnational Challenge
Introduction: Waging Health: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Wars
Thinking of war from a U.S.-American perspective will almost immediately evoke associations of male soldiers fighting heroic battles for a good cause such as democracy and/or the liberation of people from dictatorships, tyrannies, and torture. However, as more detailed and on-site news coverage has increasingly shown, this vision is entirely too limited. Among many possible revisionist perspectives is that of those women who have been involved in…
Introduction: Approaches to New Technologies in American Studies: Programmatic Considerations
Technology tends to represent a thrust toward the future, an accelerated promise of microrefined systems and networks, deeper probes into the way we live and think. Technology claims the future on our behalf.
“Democracy Is Fragile”: A Foreword
European Perspectives on the United States in Times of Populism, Protests, and the Pandemic
Why the citizens of the United States picked the wrong president in 2016 is gradually becoming more obvious.In the last four years, Donald J. Trump has polarized his country more than any other president before him.He has succeeded in dividing the nation into those who are with him-his fans, mostly Republicans-and those who are against him-mostly Democrats.His selfabsorbed mentality does not allow him to recognize the truth in Abraham Lincoln's p…
Pandemic Patterns: The Cultural Semiotics of Medical Crisis
Pandemics as the great levellers? Class, community and capital in US-American short stories
This article focuses on literature’s potential for healing – both medical and sociopolitical – in times of severe crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Affect is an important literary tool to make people aware of social inequalities, in particular reading or writing short stories with the experience of a simultaneous real-life pandemic. Reading is an embodied act through which the reader enters into a dialogue with both the author and the text. E…
“Amerikastudien / American Studies” at Seventy: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Women Who Rocked the World: Heroines of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century US America
To the Only "Super Global Professor of American Studies" I Know
.
History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Academic Freedom and Politics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (2 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (2 works)