PD Dr. Karin Höpker

Karin Hoepker is PD in American Studies at the FAU and a guest professor of American Literature at Konstanz University in Spring/Summer 2025. Her work focuses on literary knowledge production and the  function of fiction across media. She is specifically interested in the intersections of literature and the sciences, in economic criticism and the future of work, ecocriticism, and in the emerging semantics of risk since the nineteenth century.