Office: HMNSS 2604
Phone: (951) 827-1280
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stephanie.hammer@ucr.edu

STEPHANIE B. HAMMER
Professor, Comparative Literature/Germanic Studies
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 1982

Stephanie Hammer has published 3 academic books and more than 20 articles on eighteenth century fiction and theater in France, England, and Germany, the writing of Peter Handke, science fiction, postmodernism, and contemporary American drama. Two recent titles are Schiller's Wound: The Theater of Trauma from Crisis to Commodity (Wayne State UP, 2001) and The Sublime Crime: Fascination, Failure, and Form in Literature of the Enlightenment (Southern Illinois UP, 1994).

Now predominantly a fiction writer, Hammer is a two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize (for “Night of the Wedding Dresses” and “Vintage”) and a 3 rd place winner of the Mark Twain Award for Fiction (for “Feel My Pain”). Her stories have appeared in Café Irreal, NYCBigCityLit, The Bellevue Literary Review, Rhapsoidia, Square Lake , and The Red Rock Review. Her current interests are writing, pedagogy for the 21 st Century, and the representation of the professor in fiction, theater and film.