Heike SteinhoffHeike Steinhoff is a junior professor of American studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Her research focuses on popular American (media) culture from the 19th to the 21st century, gender studies, body studies, and urban space. She has worked and publised on literary discourses of urban sexuality in 19th century America, pirates in Hollywood cinema, gender in children's movies, filmic representations of metropolitan masculinities, and the interrelations of body positivity, self-help literature and popular feminism. Read More Read Less