Michael Basseler (Dr. habil.), born in 1976, works as Academic Manager at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at the University of Gießen. His research focuses on US-American literature and culture as well as literary and cultural theory, especially the study of narrative, African American literature, and the short story. His current project deals with the concept of resilience from a literary and cultural perspective.

»Overall, this volume offers a prominent, holistic reframing of many familiar critical tropes to the scholar interested in short story criticism and literary history, and is certainly one of the fullest works to date focused on the cognitive work of the genre.«

Michael Basseler (Dr. habil.), born in 1976, works as Academic Manager at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at the University of Gießen. His research focuses on US-American literature and culture as well as literary and cultural theory, especially the study of narrative, African American literature, and the short story. His current project deals with the concept of resilience from a literary and cultural perspective.

»Overall, this volume offers a prominent, holistic reframing of many familiar critical tropes to the scholar interested in short story criticism and literary history, and is certainly one of the fullest works to date focused on the cognitive work of the genre.«

Michael Basseler (Dr. habil.), born in 1976, works as Academic Manager at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at the University of Gießen. His research focuses on US-American literature and culture as well as literary and cultural theory, especially the study of narrative, African American literature, and the short story. His current project deals with the concept of resilience from a literary and cultural perspective.

»Overall, this volume offers a prominent, holistic reframing of many familiar critical tropes to the scholar interested in short story criticism and literary history, and is certainly one of the fullest works to date focused on the cognitive work of the genre.«