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Maria Sulimma is Juniorprofessor of North American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Freiburg. She works in the intersecting areas of popular culture studies, feminist media studies, and urban studies. She is the author of Gender and Seriality: Practices and Politics of Contemporary US Television (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Her current project carries the working title “Trivial Pursuits: Literature, Gentrification, and the Politics of Prioritization in Postindustrial Cities.”
From 2018-2022, she was the Postdoctoral Researcher of the Research Group “City Scripts / Scripts for Postindustrial Urban Futures (www.cityscripts.de). From 2013-2017, she was a faculty member of the Department of Culture at the John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies (Freie Universität Berlin) and the coordinator of the Popular Seriality Research Unit (DFG-FOR 1091: “Populäre Serialität: Ästhetik und Praxis”).
She completed her M.A. at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in 2012 with majors in English Philology and Political Science. She received her doctorate in North American Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin in 2018.
Alongside her work in academia, Maria has served as Equal Rights Representative (Gleichstellungsbeauftragte) and public educator with a thematic focus on Gender Roles, Gender and Media, Beauty Norms, Sexual Orientation, Critical Whiteness, Diversity, Intersectionality, Anti-Discrimination, Women’s Suffrage, etc.