Person

Usbeck, Frank

1974

is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Technische Universitat Dresden. He earned his PhD at Leipzig University. His thesis was awarded the Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies in 2011. He co-edited the collection Participating Audiences, Imagined Public Spheres (2012) and has published a number of essays on Indian imagery in Germany and on ceremonial storytelling in American soldier weblogs. Usbeck is member of the Dresden-Leipzig research initiative "Selbst-bewusste Erzahlungen."