Heike SchaeferHeike Schaefer is Professor of North American Literature and Culture at the University of Education Karlsruhe, Germany. She is a former Fulbright fellow, author of Mary Austin's Regionalism: Reflections on Gender, Genre, and Geography (2004), and hasedited several books and special issues, including The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture: Medium, Object, Metaphor (2019), Literary Knowledge Production and the Life Sciences (2017), and Network Theory and American Studies (2015). Read More Read Less