Georg Schiller is Associate Professor of American Studies at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. He studied Philosophy and American Literature at Düsseldorf University and at Duke University, North Carolina. His dissertation situates Gertrude Stein's aesthetic rendering of meaning-making processes in a pragmatist context. It was published as Symbolische Erfahrung und Sprache im Werk von Gertrude Stein [Symbolic Experience and Language in the Work of Gertrude Stein] in 1996.
Schiller's approach to Native American cultures is also heavily indebted to American pragmatism, esp. to William James and John Dewey. So far, his papers in this field tend to discuss how Native American aesthetics may be interpreted from a non-native perspective.
Other publications focus mainly on body matters and deal with childbirth in public places, shifting body boundaries, and disability (i.e. the body as interface).