Reingard Monika Nischik[1] (born 1962[1] in Herford, Germany) is a retired German university professor and literary scholar.
Nischik studied English and North American Literature as well as Social Sciences at the University of Cologne (Germany), taking the First State Examination in 1977.
She spent one year of her doctoral studies on a scholarship from the Canadian Government at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver from 1978 to 1979.
Awarded many prizes, fellowships and grants through her career, during the academic year 2009/2010, Nischik was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Center of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Integration" at the University of Konstanz, funded by the German Universities Excellence Initiative, and in 2014 was awarded the competitive "Freedom for Creativity" by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
one of the pioneers and leading scholars of Canadian Studies in Germany and Europe, and is an expert on the works of Margaret Atwood.