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Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich

Marion Gymnich is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Bonn. She studied English, German and Slavic Studies at the University of Cologne; she holds a PhD in English Literary Studies from the University of Cologne and did postdoctoral research at the University of Giessen, where she was coordinator of the International PhD Program 'Literary and Cultural Studies'. She was visiting lecturer at the University of Łodz and visiting professor at the University of Graz. She has published widely on children's and young adult literature, British literature from the nineteenth century to the present, postcolonial literature, genre theory, narrative theory, gender studies, audiovisual media and memory studies.