Walter Hölbling is a retired professor of American studies at Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, Austria. His interests include US (literary) history and criticism; general literary theory, with emphasis on the socio-cul­tural context of literary aesthetics; methodology of American studies and interdisciplinary approaches; literature and war; feminist (literary) theory and practice; theory and practice of intercultur­al exchange; literature into film; documentary film; cultural studies; European migration to the US; emigrant literature, and political rhetoric and historical facts. He is currently working on a study of Austrian refugee publishers in the US after 1938 and on a revised and updated English edition of his book on US fictions of war. Recent publications include an introduction to The Literature of War, vol. 1. (Detroit, 2012) and Landscapes of Postmodernity: Concepts and Paradigms of Critical Theory (Berlin, 2010), co-edited with Petra Eckhard and Michael Fuchs.