Oliver Scheiding is professor of North American Literatures and Early American Studies. His research focuses on magazine studies, print culture and material culture studies, media history, and studies in human differentiation. He is author of Worlding America: A Transnational Anthology of Short Narratives before 1800 (Stanford UP, 2015) and the monograph The Early American Novel (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2003). His most recent book chapters appeared in The Cambridge History of Native American Literature (2020) and The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story (2023). He co-edits the book series Transnational Periodical Cultures (Leiden/Boston: Brill). He was awarded the Gutenberg Research College 2022/23 senior fellowship for his forthcoming book Print Technologies and the Emergence of American Literary Cultures (Wiley-Blackwell, June 2026). He serves on the board of the American Literature Association and edited the journal Amerikastudien – American Studies on behalf of the German Association of American Studies (2011-2019). He is principal investigator in the collaborative research center “Human Differentiation” (SFB 1482) and launched the Mainz-based interdisciplinary research initiative "Transnational Periodical Cultures." See: https://humandifferenzierung.uni-mainz.de/en/ See: http://www.transnationalperiodicalcultures.net