“A Literary Studies Approach to Urban Complexity: How Literary Studies can Contribute to Inter- and Transdisciplinary Urban Rese

Jens Martin Gurr has been Professor of British and Anglophone

Literature and Culture at the University of Duisburg-Essen since

2007. His research interests include urban literary and cultural

studies, contemporary American literature and culture, 17th- and

18th-century British literature and British Romanticism. Since

2008, he has been director of the Joint Centre

“Urban Systems” at the University of Duisburg-Essen, in which

some 70 researchers from all faculties engage in inter- and

transdisciplinary research on key urban issues; since 2010, he

has been director of the international interdisciplinary doctoral

programme “ARUS – Advanced Research in Urban Systems”.

Recent publications include the co-edited volumes Cityscapes in

the Americas and Beyond: Urban Complexity in Literature and Film as well as EthniCities:

Metropolitan Cultures and Ethnic Identities in the Americas (both jointly published by

WVT, Trier, and Bilingual Press, Tempe, AZ, 2011) and Romantic Cityscapes (Volume 12 of

Studies in English Romanticism; Trier: WVT, 2013).