Carolin Benack

Carolin Benack currently majors in American literature and economics in the MA program at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. After spending a year at the University of California, Irvine, she completed her BA in North American Studies and Comparative Literature in 2013 with a thesis on the depiction of finance capital in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis and Adam Haslett’s Union Atlantic. She intends to pursue a PhD after finishing her MA. In her free time, she enjoys doing jigsaw puzzles of the most tacky images she can find.