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Heinz Ickstadt, Professor of American Literature at the Kennedy Institute of North American Studies, Free University Berlin, emeritus since 2003. Publications: Dichterische Erfahrung und Metaphernstruktur: Die Bildersprache Hart Cranes; a history of the American novel in the twentieth century (Transformations of the Mimetic, 1996); plus essays on late nineteenth-century American literature and culture within a context of rapid social transformation (especially on the work of William Dean Howells and Henry James), on the fi ction and poetry of American modernism and postmodernism (especially on Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers as well as on Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Frank O‘Hara and Susan Howe), also on the history and theory of American Studies (e.g. „American Studies in an Age of Globalization,“ American Quarterly 54: 4 [December 2002], 543-562). Some of these were collected in Faces of Fiction: Essays on American Literature and Culture from the Jacksonian Age to Postmodernity (2001). He also edited and co-edited several books on American literature and culture, among them a bi-lingual anthology of American poetry and the fi rst English/German edition of Pound‘s The Cantos (2012). He was president of the German Association of American Studies from 1990 until 1993, and president of the European Association of American Studies from 1996-2000.