Dorothee Schneider

Born in Germany, Dorothee was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at birth. She has always tried not to let her CF stop her from enjoying life. She loves traveling and learning new languages. After graduating high school, she completed a volunteer service in a parish in Stockholm. She lives near the Baltic Sea where she works as a junior lecturer in American literature at Kiel University. She is pursuing her PhD with a dissertation on representations of time and disability in contemporary American literature.