Born and raised in Bonn, Germany, Kristina Schauhoff graduated in 2021 with a Bachelor of Education from the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany, before coming to the University of Alabama as a scholar of the Federation of German-American Clubs (VDAC), where she received her MA in German Literature in May 2023. During her time in Alabama, she primarily focused on the role of humor in literature to critique societal issues, as well as the question of (gender) identity and Heimat specifically in transnational literature. She received the Outstanding Graduate Student of German Award 2022 from the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Alabama and served as IT Chair for the 2023 UA Languages Conference.
With her background in teaching, she is especially interested in second language acquisition in connection to phonetics, sociolinguistics, and the use of technology in the FL classroom. Furthermore, her areas of interest also include gender and identity studies, the question of Herkunft and Heimat, cultural studies, humor studies, and the use of time, mainly flashbacks and foreshadowing, in literature.