GISI German Irish Studies Itinerary Ina Bergmann is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany. She is the co-founder of Irish Studies Würzburg (ISWÜ), a member of the international research network Pathologies of Solitude (Queen Mary University of London), a board member of the European Network for Short Fiction Research (ENSFR), and a peer reviewer for the international journals AmLit: American Literatures, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, Journal of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, and Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE). She has held fellowships with the Rothermere American Institute (RAI) at the University of Oxford, the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute (TLRH) at Trinity College Dublin, and the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens at San Marino, CA, USA. She is the author of two monographs, And Then the Child Becomes a Woman: Weibliche Initiation in der amerikanischen Kurzgeschichte 1865-1970 (Winter 2003) and The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed: The New Historical Fiction (Routledge 2021), the (co-)editor of nine volumes of essays and special issues of journals, among them Liminality and the Short Story: Boundary Crossings in American, Canadian, and British Writing (Routledge 2015), Cultures of Solitude: Loneliness – Limitation – Liberation (Lang 2017), and Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (de Gruyter 2018), as well as a frequent contributor to peer-reviewed journals and international book projects.
