Dr. Leopold Lippert

Englisches Seminar
© Lippert
Englisches Seminar
Assistant Professor
Chair of American Studies
Room ES 326 | Tel.: 0251- 83 25634
Johannisstr. 12-20 | 48143 Münster
Leopold.Lippert@uni-muenster.de
Consultation hours: Thursdays, 10:00-11:00 am (Please email me to receive a slot); Winter term: Tuesdays 10:00-11:00 am

Semester Break Office Hours
Please email me for an appointment:
Thursday, July 25th, 10:00-11:00 am
Thursday, September 19th, 10:00-11:00 am
Thursday, September 26th, 10:00-11:00 am

Leopold Lippert teaches American Studies at the University of Münster. He holds a PhD in American Studies (University of Vienna, 2015) and received the 2016 Fulbright Prize in American Studies for his dissertation, and was runner-up for the 2017 Obama Dissertation Prize. He is the author of Performing America Abroad: Transnational Cultural Politics in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism (2018). His second book project “Revolutionary Laughter” is concerned with the relationship of humor and the public sphere in late-eighteenth-century America. He has co-edited several volumes and journal special issues: Theater of Crisis, a special issue of JCDE: Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (2020, with Nassim W. Balestrini and Maria Löschnigg); The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater (transcript 2021, with Ralph J. Poole); American Cultures as Transnational Performance: Commons, Skills, Traces (Routledge 2021, with Katrin Horn, Ilka Saal, and Pia Wiegmink); and American Im/Mobilities, a special issue of JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (2021, with Alexandra Ganser, Helena Oberzaucher, and Eva Schörgenhuber).

 

 

 

 

  • Information for Students

    • If you are interested in writing your BA or MA thesis with me, I’m happy to guide you through the process. Before you reach out to me, please make sure that

    a) your planned project roughly overlaps with my research interests, and

    b) you have one or two paragraphs ready, outlining what you want to achieve and how.

    • If you need a letter of recommendation, I’d be happy to write one for you. Please understand that to make this possible, you should have attended (one of) my classes and participated actively so that I have had a good impression of who you are and how you speak in class. Please reach out 4-6 weeks before your application deadline and include your CV, your letter of motivation, and some info about the agency to which you apply.

  • Research Interests

    • Theater and Performance Studies
    • Transnationalism and Cultural Exchange
    • Early American Literature
    • Queer and Sexuality Studies
    • Affect and Public Feeling

  • Current Project

    “Revolutionary Laughter: Humor and the Public Sphere in Late-Eighteenth-Century America” (monograph)