Stefanie von Schnurbein

Stefanie von Schnurbein is a German academic who first became well known for her book Religion als Kulturkritik as well as for writing about the occult.

Biography

After completing her doctorate "Göttertrost in Wendezeiten. Neugermanisches Heidentum zwischen New Age und Rechtsradikalismus" ( at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Stefanie von Schnurbein went on to write her habil (post-doctorate) "Krisen der Männlichkeit. Schreiben und Geschlechterdiskurs in skandinavischen Romanen seit 1890" [Crisis of Masculinity: Writing and Gender Discourse in Scandinavian Novels since 1890] at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

She is both professor for New Scandinavian Literature at the Nordeuropa-Institut (Department for Northern European Studies), Humboldt-Universität in Berlin and since 2005, Wigeland Visiting Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at The University of Chicago.

In 2006 she received an honorary doctorate from the Universität Örebro, Sweden

External links

* [http://www2.hu-berlin.de/ni/personal/svs/svs.html Department for Northern European Studies entry]