Ulrike Horstmann-Guthrie

Ulrike Horstmann-Guthrie received her undergraduate degree in English, American, Russian and German Literature from the University of Hamburg in 1977 and her M.Phil. in General and Comparative Literature from the University of Oxford in 1981. From 1977 she held lecturing posts at Leicester, Oxford, Manchester and Leeds Universities, and since 1985 has taught for the Institute of Continuing Education and the Department of German at the University of Cambridge. While teaching literature from 1700 to the present day, her particular interest centres on 19th-century fiction and she has published on English and German writers in their cultural and historical contexts, exploring connections and mutual influences.