Susanne Rohr studied at the John F. Kennedy Institute of the Free University Berlin and at Cornell University. From 1986-1994 she was a member of the academic faculty at Stanford University, Study Center Berlin. As of October 2006 Susanne Rohr is full professor of American literature and culture and chair of American Studies at Hamburg university. Susanne Rohr has published in the fields of literary and cultural theory, semiotics, American pragmatism, epistemology, and on a broad range of topics in American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.