Critical Inquiry Critical Inquiry
Birte Christ is assistant professor of American Literature and Culture at Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany and currently a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Amherst College. She has published a monograph on early twentieth-century middlebrow novels by American women writers, Modern Domestic Fiction: Popular Feminism, Mass-Market Magazines, and Middle-Class Culture, 1905–1925 (Heidelberg: Winter 2012) as well as essays on middlebrow fiction of the 1950s and after. Other research interests include law and literature, women’s studies, book studies, digital reading cultures, and methodologies of American Studies. At Amherst College, she is completing a book manuscript on representations of the American death penalty from the 1840s through today.
