Udo Hebel
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| Born | 24 April 1956 |
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Udo J. Hebel (born 24 April 1956) is a German Professor of American studies. He has been president of the University of Regensburg since 1 April 2013. He was selected as one of the ten best university rectors in Germany by the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers.
Udo Hebel studied American studies, English studies, German studies, and Pedagogy at the University of Mainz and, as a Fulbright scholar, in Mississippi, USA. After passing the first and second Staatsexamen as a teacher, he was awarded a scholarship from the Landes-Graduiertenförderung Rheinland-Pfalz and was awarded his doctorate summa cum laude from the University of Mainz in 1988. From 1986 to 1995 he was an academic at the University of Mainz and gained his habilitation for the subject of American Studies in 1995.
He spent several years of study and research in the United States: at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, at Harvard University, at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester and as a visiting professor at a number of institutions, including Colorado College in Colorado Springs.
In 1995 Hebel was appointed professor of American Literature and Cultural History at the University of Potsdam; from 1996 to 1998 he was professor of North American Literature at the University of Freiburg.
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