Juliane Gamboeck-Straetz

Juliane Gambšck-StrŠtz is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University of Mannheim. She holds a Master of Education from the University of Potsdam as well as a Master of Arts from Clark University, Worcester, MA. In 2015, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. Since 2020, she is a member of the research network ÒThe Failure of Knowledge Ð Knowledges of Failure.Ó In her dissertation project, entitled ÒCorporeal Battlegrounds. Laboring Bodies in Late Capitalism,Ó she analyzes how contemporary US novels critique normalized late capitalist assumptions about work through the depiction of laboring bodies.