Maria Stehle

MARIA STEHLE received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2005. She taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor of German and Gender and Women's Studies at Connecticut College in New London for two years before she joined the faculty at UT in the fall of 2007.

Her research and teaching focus on German and European Cultural Studies, Gender and Media Studies, and Cultural Histories of Germany since 1945. Her recent publications include an article in the Westminster Papers for Culture and Communication titled "Narrating the Ghetto, Narrating Europe: From Berlin, Kreuzberg to the Banlieues of Paris" and a forthcoming article "The whole world is in uproar: Discourses of Fear, Instability, and Global Change in West German Media, 1977-1980," in German Politics and Society. She is currently working on a project that investigates the changing politics of gender and national space by tracing journeys of male protagonists, melancholy losers, and hysterical heroes in German literary texts and fictional films from the 1970s to the 1990s.

She is further interested in exploring interdisciplinary and creative strategies for teaching and research and theories and practices of critical pedagogy and student centered learning.

She serves as co-editor for the Women in German Newsletter.

Contact Information

Maria Stehle
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst
716 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville , TN 37996

Phone: (865) 974-7001
E-Mail: mstehle@utk.edu