Elisabeth Bronfen

Elisabeth Bronfen, born in Munich in 1958, is a German scholar of literature and culture. She studied at Radcliffe College, Harvard University, and the University of Munich, where she completed her habilitation in 1990 with a study of the aestheticization of dead women by male artists. She taught at the University of Zurich’s Department of English and was a Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. Her research and publications address literature, film, visual culture, gender studies, psychoanalysis, and seriality. Her books include *Tiefer als der Tag gedacht: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Nacht*, *Liebestod und Femme Fatale*, and *Serial Shakespeare*. She received the Martin Warnke Medal in 2017 and an honorary doctorate from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in 2020. In 2016, she also published the cookbook memoir *Besessen*.