Elke Brüns was the Fall 2007 and Fall 2008 Charlotte M. Craig Visiting Research Scholar and Max Kade Writer/Scholar in Residence in the Department.

• Dr. Brüns has been teaching at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, where she received her postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) in 2005.
• In 2005 and 2006 she worked as editor for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
• In 1996 she received her Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin.
• Since 1990 she has been writing articles as a free-lance journalist.

• Nach dem Mauerfall – Eine Literaturgeschichte der Entgrenzung . Mün­chen: Fink 2006.
• außenstehend, ungelenk, kopfüber weiblich: Psychosexuelle Autor­positionen bei Marlen Haushofer, Marieluise Fleißer und Ingeborg Bachmann . Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 1998. (Sold out) See http://www.fu-berlin.de/zefrauen/media/pdf/monografienBruens.pdf
• (Ed.): Ökonomien der Armut. Soziale Verhältnisse in der Literatur. München: Fink 2008.

She has published articles on authors from the 18. to the 20. Century, Gender Studies, Film, and Cultural Studies.