Dr. Gregor Hens teaches courses, mostly in English, on European literature after 1945 and on cultural aspects of urbanism. In addition, he offers creative writing workshops.

Biography: Hens read German Studies and Linguistics at the University of Bonn and the University of Missouri. He earned a PhD from the University of California-Berkeley, and taught at Ohio State University from 1995 to 2012. Hens is a writer and literary translator, his latest work is the novel Missouri (Aufbau Verlag, 2019). His memoir Nicotine was translated into English, Spanish and French. He started teaching in the FU program for international students in 2020.