Frank Kelleter is Chair of the Department of Culture and Einstein Professor of North American Cultural History at John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin. He is the director of the Research Unit "Popular Seriality—Aesthetics and Practice".
His main fields of interest include the American colonial and Enlightenment periods, theories of American modernity, and American media and popular culture since the 19th century. Recent publications: Serial Agencies: The Wire and Its Readers (2014); Populäre Serialität: Narration – Evolution – Distinktion (ed., 2012). He is currently editing a volume on Media of Serial Narrative.