Heinz Ickstadt, Professor of North American Literature at the Kennedy Institute of North American Studies, Free University Berlin, since 1978; Pof. em. since 2003. Among his many publications are a history of the American novel in the twentieth Century (Der amerikanische Roman im 20. Jh.: Transformation des Mimetischen 1998), and essays on late nineteenth-century American literature and culture; on the fiction, poetry and painting of American modernism and postmodernism; on American fiction and poetry of the city as well as on the history and theory of American Studies. Some of these were collected in Faces of Fiction: Essays on American Literature and Culture from the Jacksonian Age to Postmodernity (2001). He also edited and co-edited several books on American literature and culture, and a bi-lingual anthology of American poetry from its beginnings to the present. He was president of the German Association of American Studies from 1990 until 1993, and president of the European Association of American Studies from 1996-2000.