• PHD German, University of California at Berkeley 2011
World Area Of Focus:
• Western Europe/European Union (EU) 100%
Languages:
• German (professional proficiency)
Specialization:
I investigate 20th century German literature, film and popular culture, primarily through the analytical lenses of race and gender
Relevant Experience:
• 2006-2010 Graduate Student Instructor
University of California at Berkeley
Distinctions:
Institute for African American Research Grant; Humanities Writ Large Grant, Member of Steering Committee;Susan Sontag Prize for Translation; Studienstiftung des Abgeordnetenhauses von Berlin Scholarship; Fulbright Grant; Wilhelm Meister Prize, University of Chicago; Foreign Language Acquisition Grant
Relevant Courses Taught:
• GERM 265 Hitler in Hollywood • GERM 301 Jugend- und Popkultur • GERM 302 Language and Culture • GERM 303 Introduction to German Literature • GERM 390 Rebellion und der Kampf um Anerkennung • GERM 880 Gender and Sexuality in German Film
Recent Publications:
• 2017 White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture. Forthcoming with University of Michigan Press. 2018. 393 pp in ms.
• 2013 “One Like No Other? Blaxploitation in the Performance of Afro-German Rapper Lisi.” Journal of Popular Music. Summer 2013.
• 2012 “Lessons in Liberation: Fassbinder’s Whity at the Crossroads of Hollywood Melodrama and Blaxploitation.” Companion to German Cinema. Terri Ginsberg and Andrea Mensch (Eds.) Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2012.
• 2012 With Kristin Dickinson and Robin Ellis. “Linguistic Rebellion in Feridun Zaimoglu’s Koppstoff.” Contemporary German Culture: Feridun Zaimoglu. Tom Cheesman and Karin E. Yesilada (Eds.) Wales: University of Wales Press, 2012.
• 2011 “Unlikely Cousins: Inszenierungen von Blackness in deutschen HipHop- und antirassistischen Skinhead-Szenen.” They Say I’m Different: Populärmusik, Szenen und ihre AkteurInnen. Rosa Reitsamer and Wolfgang Fichna (Eds.)Vienna: Löcker Verlag, 2011.Scholars Publishing, 2010.
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