Prof. Dr. Inge Stephan, formerly assistant and then professor at the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Hamburg, co-founder and director of the Center for Feminist Literary Studies there and co-editor of the newsletter "Frauen in der Literaturwissenschaft" ("Women in Literary Studies"), later appointed to the Humboldt University in Berlin, where she was involved in establishing the interdisciplinary gender studies program. Numerous publications in the field of women's studies, feminist literary studies and gender studies. Since retirement, active as a freelance author in the field of cultural history of gender.
