Prof. Dr. Ulrike Steierwald

Ulrike Steierwald is Professor of German Literature at Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany). She is head of the Institute of German Studies and Education and serves as Dean of Leuphana College. Her research and teaching focus on German literature and cultural history (18th-21th century), modernism/postmodernism, on the interface of cultural studies and education, on cultural memory, systems of knowledge and literary aesthetics.
 
After studying German Literature, Theatre and History, Professor Steierwald received her Dr.phil. degree from the University of Munich in 1992. After a postdoctoral fellowship in Library Science Research at University of Freiburg (dealing with Leibniz' theory of a universal library system) she was deputy chief librarian at the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Since 2004 she was Professor of Library and Information Science at the Department of Media, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. Receiving an appointment as Professor of German Literature she joined Leuphana University in 2011. She is member of the Institute of German Studies and Education as well as of the Institute of History and Literary Cultures.