Prof. Dr. phil. Sabine Broeck

Werdegang

• taught in English and African-American Studies at the University of Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1983/1984
• received her Ph.D. from Frankfurt University; her dissertation was published under the title Der entkolonisierte Koerper. Die Protagonistin in der afroamerikanischen weiblichen Erzähltradition der 30 bis 80er Jahre with Campus Verlag, Frankfurt/New York 1988
• American Council of Learned Societies-Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study of the Humanities at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1990/1991
• completed her "Habilitation" at the Humboldt University zu Berlin in 1997, published as White Amnesia - Black Memory? Women's Writing and History (Lang, Frankfurt/New York 1999)
• was appointed Professor of American Studies at University of Bremen in 1999
• acted as Vice President for International Relations for the University of Bremen from 2000 - 2005
• President of international Collegium for African-American Research (CAAR) as of July 2007
• chairwoman of "Studienkommission" English Speaking Cultures WS 2007 - SS 2009
  

Schwerpunkte in der Lehre

Focus on:

• African-American Studies
• Gender Studies
• Americanization
• Text as Culture/Culture as Text
• Theories of Postcolonial Studies and Decolonial Humanities

Schwerpunkte in der Forschung

• Gender, Race and the Constitution of Transatlantic Modernity
• The Black Diaspora in Transatlantic Contexts
• The African-American Civil Rights Movement in/and Europe (international research network in connection with Collegium for African-American Research)
• Intersectionality
• Subversive Americanization
• De-Colonial Humanities

Publikationen

Monographs:

1. White Amnesia - Black Memory? Women's Writing and History . Frankfurt a.M./New York: Peter Lang, 1999
2. Der entkolonisierte Koerper. Die Protagonistin in der afro-amerikanischen weiblichen Erzähltradition der 30er bis 80er Jahre. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 1988
3. No Slavery for the Subject - Slavery, Modernity and Gender, contracted with SUNY Press

Edited / co-edited:

1. Bach, Gerhard, Sabine Broeck and Ulf Schulenberg, eds. Americanization - Globalization - Education. American Studies - A Monograph Series. Vol. 107. Heidelberg: Winter, 2003
2. Boi, Paola and Sabine Broeck, eds. CrossRoutes - The Meanings of 'Race' for the 21st Century. Reihe: FORECAAST. Bd. 9. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2003.
3. Lenz, Günter H., Hartmut Keil and Sabine Bröck-Sallah, eds. Reconstructing American Literary and Historical Studies. Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus, 1990

Recent Articles:

1. "Internationalizing African-American Studies, too!" , Jane Desmond, Virginia Dominguez, eds., America in the World , forthcoming
2. Global Gourmets: Food Writing and Its Fancies of Transculturation, ” Wilfried Raussert, Reinhard Isensee, eds. Transcultural Visions of Identities in Images and Texts. Transatlantic American Studies.Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2009, 155 - 169.
3. Black Women' s Writing Revisited, gender forum 22 (2008), http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de/blackwomenswriting/BlackWomenWriting.html
4. "Enslavement as Regime of Western Modernity: Re-Reading Gender Studies Epistemology through Black Feminist Critique", Broeck., ed. , Black Women' s Writing Revisited, gender forum 22 (2008), http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de/blackwomenswriting/BlackWomenWriting.html
5. ” Blackness and Sexualities in the Interracial Diaspora”, Michelle Wright, Antje Schuhmann, eds., Black Sexualities, Münster: LIT Verlag, 2007, 95-106.
6. ” White Fatigue: Or: Supplementary Notes On Hybridity, ” Jopy Nyman, ed., ReconstructingHybridity Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007, 43-58.
7. Das Subjekt der Aufklärung – Sklaverei – Gender Studies: zu einer notwendigen Re-Lektüre der Moderne, Gabriele Dietze, Sabine Hark, eds., Gender kontrovers. Frankfurt: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2006, 152-180.
8. ” Property: White Gender and Slavery, ” Rac(e)ing Questions III , genderforum 40(2006) www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de
9. ” Gender Trouble in the Deep South: Women, Race and Slavery, ” Jean-Paul Rocchi, ed. Objet Identité: Epistemologie et Transversalité, special issue Cahiers Charles V, no.40, 2006, 115-134.
10. “Der Neger Jupiter raubt Europa”, Wolfgang Emmerich, Eva Kammler, eds., Literatur Psychoanalyse Gender. Bremen: Edition Lumière,2006,<85-102.
11. ” The Subject of Enlightenment: Notations Towards an Epistemology of Slavery, Gender and Modernity, ” Martina Tissberger et. al., eds., Weiß-Weißsein-Whiteness. Kritische Studien zu Gender und Rassimus.Critical Studies on Gender and Racism. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2006, 105-112.
12. "Trauma, Agency, Kitsch and the Excesses of the Real: Beloved Within the Field of Critical Response," Joself Jarab, Marcel Arbeit, Jenel Virden, eds., America in the Course of Human Events, Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2006, 201-215.

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