2020   Habilitation (post-doctoral degree), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
2010   PhD., Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
2005   First State Exam, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg

since 10/2022 Senior Lecturer in American Studies, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU)
07/2022 - 09/2022 Academic Coordinator of the DFG Research Training Group "Contradiction Studies, University of Bremen
2021-2022 Academic Coordinator of the KU Center for Advanced Studies "Dialogical Cultures", Catholic Universtiy of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU)
2020-2021 Lecturer at the Department of English-Speaking Cultures, University of Bremen
2016 Guest Scholar at the American Indian Studies Center, UCLA
2013 – 2019   DFG Principal investigator of the Project "Biopolitics and Indigenous Life Writing" and lecturer at the Obama Insitute for Transnational American Studies, JGU Mainz
2011 – 2013   Lecturer at the American Studies Program, Department of English and Linguistics, JGU Mainz
2009 – 2011  Coordinator of the international PhD program "Literary and Cultural Studies," International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, JLU Giessen
2006 – 2010  Lecturer and Research Assistant at the Department of English, JLU Giessen
 

• North American Indigenous literatures and cultures
• American autobiography and life writing
• Modern and contemporary American poetry
• American short fiction
• U.S. TV series
• The (post)apocalypse in U.S. literature and culture
• Settler Colonial Studies, Decolonial Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies
• Biopolitics, Geopolitics
• Environmental Humanities

Monographs, edited volumes, special issues

Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life: Settler States and Indigenous Presence. Edited with Kerstin Knopf. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023. www.dukeupress.edu/biopolitics-geopolitics-life

Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways. American Indian Culture and Research Journal special issue. 42.2 (2018).

A History of American Poetry: Contexts-Developments-Readings. Edited with Oliver Scheiding und Clemens Spahr. Trier: WVT (Academic Handbook Series), 2015. 

Revising and Remembering (after) the End: American Post-Apocalyptic Poetry since 1945 from Ginsberg to Forché. Trier: WVT (MOSAIC 45), 2012.

Lost or Found in Translation? Interkulturelle/Internationale Perspektiven der Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften. Edited with Daniel Smilovski und Ansgar Nünning. Trier: WVT, 2011.

Articles and book chapters

“Introduction: Bio/Geopolitics of Settler States and Indigenous Normativities.” Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life: Settler States and Indigenous Presence.

“Beyond Humanization: Decolonization, Relationality, and 21^st Century Indigenous Literatures.” Cambridge Companion to Race in American Literature, ed. John Ernest. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. [Forthcoming]

“‘Pando/Pando’ Across the Americas: Transnational Settler Territorialities and Decolonial Pluralities.” Journal of Transnational American Studies 11.1 (2020). Special issue on “American Territorialities,” guest editors Nicole Waller and Jens Temmen. escholarship.org/uc/item/6g60x78r

“The Biopolitical Logics of Settler Colonialism and Disruptive Relationality.” Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies 17.1 (2017), 67-77. Special issue on “Settler Colonialism and Cultural Studies,” guest editors Aimee Carillo Rowe and Eve Tuck.

“Made to Move, Made of this Place: Into America, Mobility, and the Eco-Logics of Settler Colonialism.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 61.4 (2016): 507-26. Special issue on “Environmental Imagination on the Move: Nature and Mobility in American Literature and Culture,” guest editors Christine Gerhard and Christa Grewe-Volpp.

“Secret Spheres from Breaking Bad to The Americans: The Politics of Secrecy, Masculinity, and Transgression in 21st-Century U.S. Television Drama.” Transgressive Television, eds. Birgit Däwes, Alexandra Ganser, and Nicole Poppenhagen. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2015. 195-216.

(Together with Mirjam Horn). “Experimental Short Fictions of the 1960s: Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Entropy’ and Robert Coover’s ‘The Babysitter’.” A History of the American Short Story: Genres – Develoments – Model Interpretations Eds. Michael Basseler, Ansgar Nünning. Trier: WVT, 2011. 323-340.

Summer Term 2023

Überblick Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte. Teil 2: Vom Realismus bis zur Gegenwart (R. Dietrich)

Überblick Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte: Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart (R. Dietrich)

Überblick Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte: Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart - Übung und Staatsexamensvorbereitung (R. Dietrich)

C19 - Histories, Literatures, Perspectives, or: Not Your Grandparents' Nineteenth Century! (R. Dietrich)

American Cinema 1970-2020: Tracking US Film from New Hollywood to the Present (R. Dietrich)

Genres and Histories of the American Short Story (R. Dietrich)

Academic Writing Colloquium: Final Theses / Abschlussarbeiten (R. Dietrich)

Winter Term 2022/23

Literary and Cultural History II: "American Literature and Social Movements”

“Literature und Media (MA): "21st Century Indigenous Literature and Media”

“Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies“

Überblick Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte, Teil 1: "Von den Anfängen der amerikanischen Literatur bis ins 19. Jahrhundert“