After receiving a M.A. in English and Philosophy from the University of Cologne, Germany in 2011, Jasmin Herrmann has been working as a lecturer and research assistant at the chair of American Studies at the University of Cologne where she teaches undergraduate courses in American literature and literary theory. In 2016 she has completed her doctoral thesis on the rhetorical resonances between the nineteenth century American poet Emily Dickinson and the twentieth century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. She is professionally interested in the relationship between philosophy, literary theory, and methods of literary analysis. Jasmin holds a teaching degree for secondary schools (Gymnasien und Gesamtschulen) and has a two-year-old son.

• 19th-century US-American literature, Transcendentalism, Emily Dickinson
• Literary Theory, (post-)structuralism, Gilles Deleuze
• The US-American medial present
• US-American poetry
• Contemporary US-American fiction
• Philosophy and literature
• Richard Yates

“Introduction to Literary Studies” (SS 2018, WS 2018/19)

“From Postmodernism to Post-Postmodernism? A Survey of Contemporary American Literature” (SS2015)

“The Literary Fifties” (WS 2014/15)

“Introduction to American Studies” (SS 2012, SS 2013, WS 2013/14, SS 2014)

“Introduction to the Structuralist Analysis of American Literature” (WS 2012/13)

“Roland Barthes in America: Cultural Studies 5G” (SS2012)

“French Theories and American Literature” (WS 2011/12)

06 | 2016 Emily Dickinson International StudiesConference, A Certain Slant: Reading Poem 320 with Deleuze, Paris, FR.

06 | 2015 8. Internationale Deleuze Studies Konferenz, Immanence as Indiscipline: Gilles Deleuze and Emily Dickinson, Stockholm, SE.

06 | 2015 Deleuze and Aesthetics: Annual National Deleuze Scholarship Conference 4, Series, Surface, Sense: Immanence and Style in Deleuze and Dickinson, Nijmegen, NL.

05 | 2015 62. Jahrestagung der DGfA, From Rhizomes to Rocks: The Poststructuralist Legacy of New Materialism, Bonn, GER.

07 | 2014 7. Internationale Deleuze Studies Konferenz, The Dickinson Machine: Reading Poem 258 with Deleuze, Istanbul, TR.

07 | 2013 6. Internationale Deleuze Studies Konferenz, ‘Writing from the In-Between:’ Form and Argument in Mille Plateaux, Lissabon, PT.