Angelina Edith Eimannsberger
Dr. Angelina Eimannsberger is a writer, teacher, and academic. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, with a certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, at the University of Pennsylvania in August 2026. Her current book manuscript and dissertation is titled Trivial Pursuits: Women Readers, Materialist Feminism, and the New Life of Bookishness in the Twenty-First Century and explores possibilities and limitations of feminist reading communities in and around book clubs, social media, and the romance genre with a mixed-methods approach that includes literary criticism, digital humanities and ethnography, and gender studies. Her most recent publications are the co-authored public essay "Genre Juggernaut: Measuring ‘Romance’" in PublicBooks and the peer-reviewed article “The Romance Shop Around the Corner: How Women Readers Created a New Kind of Independent Bookstore” in New Americanist. Forthcoming works include a chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century Book Cultures, an accepted article in the Everyday Feminist Objects special issue of Women’s Studies, and an in-progress article on low-key seriality in romance with Sara Tanderup Linkis, Lund University. Her most recent media appearance is an article about beach reads.