The Corporation in the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities

Stefanie Mueller is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. She is the author of The Presence of the Past in the Novels of Toni Morrison (Winter Verlag, 2013), which combines narratological analysis with the tools of figurational and relational sociology. She has also co-edited collections that present work in media and popular culture studies as well as economic criticism and literary sociology, most recently Reading the Social in American Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Cambridge, and the University of California, Irvine. Her current research examines US citizenship in lyric poetry and law as well as questions of scale and genre in environmental fiction and film.