Lorena Bickert
Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg
Germany

Lorena Bickert is a Ph.D. candidate and contract lecturer at the University of Bamberg’s American Studies department. Her Ph.D. project is funded by the Cusanuswerk and focuses on representations of eco-heroism in contemporary North American literature. She has taught courses on nineteenth-century American women's poetry and “Eco-Heroines in American Literature and Culture” at the University of Bamberg. She holds a teaching degree in English and Spanish and completed her master's degree in English and American Studies at the University of Bamberg with a master's thesis on “The Power Structures in The Hunger Games: Analyzing the Panoptic Spectacle and Counter-Spectacle.”