Dr Susanne Scharnowski (e-mail: susanne.scharnowski@fu-berlin.de ) studied German and English at Freie Universität Berlin and did her doctorate on Clemens Brentano. Before returning to Freie Universität in 2003, she was a DAAD lecturer in England (Gonville and Caius College / University of Cambridge, 1990-1993), Taiwan (National Taiwan University, 1999-2000) and Australia (University of Melbourne, 2000-2003); she has also been a visiting lecturer in Poland (at the University of Wroclaw, 2006, as well as the Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej, Lublin, 2008) and in the Netherlands (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2013).
In 2019, her book "Heimat: Geschichte eines Missverständnisses" was published by the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. She is currently researching the concept of place in cultural history. More information, detailed curriculum vitae and list of publications: http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we04/institut/mitarbeiter/scharnowski/

She teaches courses on the cultural and political history of nature and the environment, the cultural history of food, the representation of nature and the environment in literary and non-literary discourse, the concept of place and utopian and dystopian urban visions.