Gerd Bayer - Biography#
Gerd Bayer is a Professor and Akademischer Direktor in the English Department at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, having previously taught at American and Canadian Universities. He has written on early modern and contemporary fiction, on Holocaust literature and film, on various aspects of popular culture, on mockumentary film and on postcolonial fiction. His teaching covers diverse aspects of English literary and cultural history from the Elizabethan era to the contemporary; and through the Erasmus exchange programme he has gained teaching experience as a visitor at the University of Limerick and University College Cork (both Ireland) and at Roskilde (Denmark). He frequently supervises postgraduate theses in his areas of research expertise (and sometimes beyond) and has worked on doctoral committees both at his home institution and, as secondary reader, in international dissertation programmes, twice at the University of Zaragoza (Spain).
He is an Editorial Board Member at the Journal of Popular Culture (USA) and at Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies (Spain) as well as an Associate Editor at The Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Routledge, UK). In addition he has been an active peer reviewer for a number of further national and international peer-reviewed journals: Callalloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Art and Letters (USA), Ariel: A Reivew of International English Literature (Canada), Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch (Germany), Res musica (Estonia), Film Quarterly (USA), Papers on Language and Literature (USA), Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly (Hawai’i), LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory (USA), Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History (UK), College Literature (USA), Concentric: Literary & Cultural Studies (Taiwan). He has also been invited to review book manuscripts for the publishers Routledge (USA), Manchester University Press (UK), Ibidem Press (Germany), and Anthem Press (UK). His (40 plus) book reviews have appeared in a wide selection of national and international journals.
In terms of service to the profession, he has also organized seminars and panels at national and international conferences, including the Narrative Society, the American Comparative Literature Society, the Modern Language Association, the German Studies Association, the Popular Culture Association, the Association for the Study of New English Literatures, the European Society for the Study of English, the Anglistentag, and the International Comparative Literature Association. His conference papers and invited lectures have taken him (in chronological order) to Montreal (Canada), Toronto (Canada), Atlanta (GA), Lawrence (KS), Winnipeg (Canada), Oxford (UK), Houston (TX), Flagstaff (AZ), Louisville (KY), Puerto Rico, Orlando (FL), Berkeley (CA), New Orleans (LA), San Diego (CA), Ann Arbor (MI), Burlington (VT), Washington DC, Ottawa (Canada), London (UK), Paris (France), Northampton (UK), Aarhus (Denmark), Klagenfurt (Austria), Cleveland (OH), Torino (Italy), Zaragoza (Spain), Barcelona (Spain), Worcester (UK), Potsdam (Germany), Lyon (France), Bowling Green (OH), Mainz (Germany), Tucson (AZ), Stuttgart (Germany), Philadelphia (PA), Freiburg (Germany), Manchester (UK), Innsbruck (Austria), Konstanz (Germany), and Bayreuth (Germany).
At present, he is completing a co-edited volume with essays on John Fowles, another edited volume with essays on heavy metal music and film (under review with Routledge), and a special issue on contemporary Holocaust visual culture for the British journal Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History (Routledge). He is also currently writing two solicted book contributions: one an article on the literature of war for a volume on trauma and literature, and the other a group of short essays for a multi-volume introduction to the British novel in the long eighteenth century, both forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
Personal website: https://www.anglistik.phil.fau.de/fields/enst/lit/staff/gerd-bayer
Scholar.google profile: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=xmTJv5AAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao
