
Germanic Language, American- Gender and Cultural Studies
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10781 berlin
Critical Occidentalism
The notion ‘Critical Occidentalism’ is meant as a paradigm for self-reflective European political thinking. Subsequent to other self-critical shifts in hegemonic concepts, such as masculinity theory, critical whiteness studies or queer studies, ‘Critical Occidentalism’ focuses on new frontiers of power difference, engendered by the structural paradigm shift in European nation states after the cold war from the binary East/West or Capitalism/Socialism to a Schism Orient/Occident. The project is focussed on Germany regarding itself as monocultural, now changing into transnational and polycultural immigration society. The now considerable large Muslim diasporas is met by some kind of Neo-Orientalism (differing from Saids colonial Orientalism) concentrating on an allegedly fundamentalist and oriental patriarchal ‘Other’. The subjects of the investigation will be media- and cultural discourses and rhetorics on 'integration', migration and gender-realtions and the tension between the production of 'occidentalist Leitkultur' amd strategies of negotiation and resignification with the German monocultural mainstream on part of the orientalized 'Other'.
EMPLOYMENT
Columbia University (USA): Max Kade Guestprofessor, fall 2009
Humboldt Universität: Research Project ‘Urban Madness’, 2009-2012
University Klagenfurt (AU): Guestprofessor for Media Studies, spring 2009
University of Virginia (USA): Max Kade Guestprofessor, fall 2008
University Salzburg (AU): Guestprofessor Gender-Germanic Studies, spring 2008
Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI): Senior Research Fellow, 2007/08
University Klagenfurt (AU): Guestprofessor for Gender Studies, fall 2007/08
University Graz (AU): Aigner Rollet Professor Gender+American St., spring 2007
Humboldt-Berlin: Guest-Professor Kulturwissenschaft 2006-2007
Humboldt-Berlin: Associate Member Graduate Collegium (Funded Institution for Young Researchers) ‘Geschlecht als Wissenskategorie’ (Gender as a Category of Knowledge) Advisor five Dissertations Projects since 2004
University of Chicago (USA): Robert Bosch Visiting Professor Germanic St., winter 2004
HU Berlin: Assistant Professor American Studies, Gender Studies, Institute for Anglistik und Amerianistik 1999 to 2006
Bertelsmann Foundation: Courses for professional authors of mystery novels, since 2000
FU Berlin: Teaching appointments at the Freie Universität Berlin, 1996-1997
Rotbuch Verlag: Chief Editor Contemporary Literature, 1980-1991
Rotbuch Verlag: Editor, Mystery Series „Rotbuch Krimi“, 1987 - 2001
1996 Fellowship of the Preußische Kulturstiftung
1995 Visiting fellow University of Chicago
1993/95 Dissertation Grant (PhD) of the EvangelischeBOOKS
Forthcoming: De/Constuction Occidentality. Edited with Claudia Brunner and Edith Wenzel, Boelefel, transcript 2008
Fortcoming. Weiße Frauen in Bewegung. Genealogien US-amerikanischer Race- und Gender Emanzipationsdiskurse. Bielefeld, transcript 2008
Gender
als interdependente Kategorie. Neue Perspektiven auf
Intersektionalität, Diversität und Heterogenität co-authored with
Katharina Walgenbach, Antje Hornscheidt und Kerstin Palm. Budrich
Verlag, 2007
Gender Kontrovers. Grenzen einer Kategorie edited with Sabine Hark. München: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, September 2006
'Holy
War' and Gender, 'Gotteskrieg' und Geschlecht. Edited with Christina
von Braun, Ulrike Brunotte, Daniela Hrzán, Gabriele Jähnert, Dagmar
Pruin, LitVerlag Berlin, 2006
Weiß – Whiteness – Weissein.
Kritische Studien zu Gender und Rassismus edited with Martina
Tissberger, Jana Husmann-Kastein, Daniela Hrzán, D. Peter Lang Verlag,
Stuttgart, 2006
Multiple Persönlichkeit. Krankheit. Medium oder
Metapher. Coedited and Introduction with Christina von Braun,
Universität Potsdam. Frankfurt: Neue Kritik, 1999
Hard-Boiled Woman. Genre und Gender im amerikanischen Kriminalroman. Hamburg: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1997
Todeszeichen, Freitod in Selbstzeugnissen. edit. and introduction. Darmstadt: Luchterhandverlag, 1981, revised new edition 1989.
Die
Überwindung der Sprachlosigkeit, Texte aus der neuen Frauenbewegung,
edit. and introduction. Darmstadt: Luchterhand Verlag, 1979, new
edition 1990.
PUBLICATIONS IN BOOKS AND PERIODICALS (SELECTION since 2000)
Co-authered with Hashemi, Elahe und Michalie, Beatrice “‘Checks and Balances’. Zum Verhältnis von Queer Theory und Intersektionalität“ in: Gender als Interdependente Kategorie in Ko-Autorschaft mit Katharina Walgenbach, Gabriele Dietze, Antje Hornscheidt und Kerstin Palm. Budrich Verlag, 2007, 107-141