Stefanie von Schnurbein

Baroness Stefanie Anna Hildegard von Schnurbein (born 24 June 1961 in Augsburg) is a German literary scholar, and Professor of Modern Scandinavian Literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

In the late 16th century the Schnurbein family settled in Augsburg, where they became wealthy silk merchants and members of the free imperial city's hereditary ruling class, the patriciate.

Schreiben und Geschlechterdiskurs in skandinavischen Romanen seit 1890 ("Crises of Masculinity: Writing and Gender Discourse in Scandinavian Novels since 1890").

In 2000 she was appointed Professor in Modern Scandinavian Literature at the Department of Northern European Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

In 2006 and 2008 she served as Wigeland Visiting Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago.