Miriam Strube is Associate Professor of American Studies at Paderborn University, Germany. She has studied English, American Studies and philosophy at Bochum University and New York University. As part of her Ph.D. studies, she had a scholarship for Columbia University and was a Fulbright scholar in Washington D.C.. She is author of Subjekte des Begehrens: Zur sexuellen Selbstbestimmung der Frau in Literatur, Musik und visueller Kultur (2009) and has published articles on Gender Studies, feminist philosophy as well as on popular culture. In her current research project, she focuses on pragmatism and modernist culture.