Ulrike Vedder is a professor at the Institute for German Literature at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her main research interests include contemporary literature; gender studies in literature; literature and material culture; literary and cultural history of genealogy, generation, heritage; and near-death narratives. Her current publications include Gender und Genre. Essayistik deutschsprachiger Autorinnen (editor, 2025) and Transformationen und Transfers. Literarische Raumordnungen und ihre Dynamisierung (editor, 2025). Vedder lives and works in Berlin.