University of Kansas

Duration of Visiting Professorship: May-July 2026 | 8 June – 20 July 2025 
Based at REAF | Regensburg European American Forum

Seminar in Summer Semester 2026: 19 May to 14 July. Citizens, Refugees, Humans. More details in SPUR. Download a flyer about the course here.

Dr Marike Janzen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic, German, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas. She also serves as the Director of the Max Kade Center for German-American Studies. Her research focuses on 20th and 21st-century German literature, literature of human rights, migration and refugee experience, literary publics, and the literature of the international left, as well as broader questions in comparative and world literature. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin.

During her time in Regensburg, she will be based at REAF, offering talks, discussions and contributions to teaching.

In 2025, during the first part of her visiting professorship, she participated in a research roundtable on 24 June, 16:30, and then on 3 July she gave a guest lecture on Liberalism Abroad Returns Home: The "Goethe-Institut im Exil".