Professor Dr. Axel Stähler

Biography

Axel Stähler is an Associate Professor and Lecturer in North American Literature, Culture, and Literary Theory at the University of Bern. He joined the department in 2021 after fourteen years at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he was a Full Professor of Comparative Literature. Stähler completed his PhD and Habilitation at the University of Bonn, acquiring the venia legendi for American English literatures and cultures. He has held various academic positions in Germany and in North America, including an invited professorship at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon. Stähler is a past recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Dorot Fellowship and the Mellon Fellowship at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre at the University of Texas at Austin. His accolades include the Teaching Prize from the University of Kent in 2015 and the 2016 Judaica Reference Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries. Axel has published extensively in the fields of Holocaust representations in American literature and culture, and modern Jewish literature with a focus on interactions between these subjects. He actively contributes to academic discourse as a member of the Peer Review College of the AHRC and serves on the Advisory Board for Bloomsbury's book series on Comparative Jewish Literatures.

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