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Meet The Editorial Team
Peter Lang has publishing teams in offices around the world, each specializing in local language and content. Follow the links below to discover more about each editor and their area of acquisitions.
Dr. Laurel Plapp
Senior Acquisitions Editor
Dr. Laurel Plapp
Senior Acquisitions Editor
Laurel is Senior Acquisitions Editor for the Language, Literature and Culture list. She began working in the publishing industry in 1995 and joined Peter Lang in 2010, after completing a PhD in Literature with a focus in French and German. Her core commissioning areas are modern languages and literatures, cultural studies and visual culture. She manages specialized series in memory studies, cultural history, women and gender studies, genre fiction, comparative literature, film studies, art history and translation studies, among others. She has recently launched new series in critical race studies, medical humanities, disability studies, plant and animal studies, and future studies. She is delighted to speak with scholars about new book and series proposals.
Michael Rücker
Senior Acquisitions Editor (Linguistics / German Language & Literature / English and American Studies)
Michael Rücker
Senior Acquisitions Editor (Linguistics / German Language & Literature / English and American Studies)
Michael Rücker has been with Peter Lang Verlag since 1992. He previously worked for a book wholesaler in Modena and taught German at a grammar school in Trieste. He studied in Hamburg and Toulouse and holds a degree in Romance studies (French language & literature/Italian), English language & literature and economics.
Ulrike Döring
Senior Acquisitions Editor
Ulrike Döring
Senior Acquisitions Editor
Ulrike Döring studied German Language and Literature and Pedagogy at the University of Stuttgart and graduated with a master’s degree. Before joining Peter Lang, she has worked as an editor for a German specialist book publisher for many years. Since December 2018, she is responsible for the German and Linguistics program at Peter Lang’s Bern office and looks forward to discussing book and series proposals, particularly on linguistic and literary topics.
Viktoria von Wickede
Acquisitions Editor
Viktoria von Wickede
Acquisitions Editor
Viktoria von Wickede studied Romance studies, history and comparative literature in Jena, Toulouse and Vienna. She worked for several years in an academic publishing house in Vienna. In the Vienna office of Peter Lang, she is responsible for Austria in the fields of Romance studies, history, literary studies and art history and is happy to discuss new projects with you.
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“Thanks to Peter Lang Verlag, namely Michael Rücker, Sonja Peschutter and Sandra Grundmann, for great editorial support.”
Simone Loleit, author of Zeit- und Alterstopik im Minnesang: Eine Untersuchung zu Liedern Walthers von der Vogelweide, Reinmars, Neidharts und Oswalds von Wolkenstein