Gerd Hurm

Gerd Hurm (born June 12, 1958 in Oberndorf am Neckar) is a German scholar and professor of American studies.

From 1980 to 1986 Gerd Hurm studied English, German, and Geography at the University of Freiburg, Germany; as an exchange student he also attended King's College London, Great Britain and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

Together with Professor Wolfgang Klooß he founded the Trier Center for American Studies (TCAS) in 2004, of which he is also the director.

In recent years his focus has been on postwar America (writing articles and giving lectures on Allen Ginsberg, James Dean and Jack Kerouac, to name a few).

In 2005 he contributed to the exhibition Coolhunters (ZKM Karlsruhe); in 2007 he co-edited the interdisciplinary essay collection Rebels Without a Cause (Peter Lang Publishing Group), to encourage a revaluation of the period.