Recent Publications
Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber. “Decolonial Queer Futures in No Hard Feelings [Faraz Shariat, Futur Drei 2020].” EuropeNow. Special Feature on European Culture and the Moving Image. Eds. Ipek Çelik Rappas, Michael Gott and Randall Halle. Sec. Research. No. 43, September 2021. https://www.europenowjournal.org/2021/09/13/decolonial-queer-futures-in-no-hard-feelings-faraz-shariat-futur-drei-2020/
Carrie Smith, Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber. “Intimate Collaborations and Feminist Gatherings: A Manifesto for a Coalitional Academy.” Feminist German Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, University of Nebraska Press, June 2020, pp. 128–43. https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2020.0010 .
Beverly Weber. “Intersectionality and Refugee Justice: Feminist Approaches to Insecurity and Precarity.” The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies. Eds S. A. Hamed Hosseini, James Goodman, Sara Motta, and Barry K. Gills. Routledge, 2020: pp. 444-459.
Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber. “Gifts of Welcome: Precarity, Intimacy, and the Gift in Die Farbe des Ozeans (Peren, 2011) and Welcome (Lioret, 2009).” Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook, edited by Temenuga Trifonova, vol. 18, 2020: pp. 69-83. https://doi.org/10.1386/nl_00014_1
Beverly Weber. “Islamophobia East-West and the Politics of Hospitality in Contemporary Germany.” Journal of Contemporary European Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, 2020: pp. 44-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2019.1651700 (Online publication 2019)
“Refugees and Islam: Representing Race, Rights, Cohabitation.” Journalism, Gender and Power. Eds. Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner and Stuart Allan. Routledge, 2019.
“Introduction: Precarity/Heimatlosigkeit.” Seminar, A Journal of Germanic Studies, vol. 54, no. 4, 2018: pp. 411 – 417. With Gabi Kathöfer. [read more]
“Heimat, Sustainability, Community: A Conversation with Karina Griffith and Peggy Piesche.” Seminar, A Journal of Germanic Studies, vol. 54, no. 4, 2018: pp. 418 – 427. With Gabi Kathöfer. [read more]
“Precarious Intimacies: Politics and Solidarities in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn.” Gegenwartsliteratur: A German Studies Yearbook, vol. xvii, 2018. pp. 115-113. [read more]
The Profound Empathy of Yoko Tawada – The New York Times
The Profound Empathy of Yoko Tawada - The New York TimesThrough the stories of polar bears, dogs and other animals, the novelist makes us see “the other” — including ourselves.This was posted on Google+
When a Grad Student Called on Black Academics to Vent, Hundreds Answered
When a Grad Student Called on Black Academics to Vent, Hundreds AnsweredA Northwestern University graduate student invited other academics on Twitter to air examples of racism and microaggressions in higher education. Here’s what he says is driving him.This was posted...
Avoid gender bias when writing letters of recommendation.
Avoid gender bias when writing letters of recommendation.?This was posted on Google+
Genders is an open access online journal. We seek submissions that address the pasts and possible futures…
Genders is an open access online journal. We seek submissions that address the pasts and possible futures of gender as an analytical tool that invariably finds expression through a labile nexus of allied categories. It invites essays that consider genders, sexual...
What I Told My White Friend When He Asked For My Black Opinion On White Privilege
What I Told My White Friend When He Asked For My Black Opinion On White PrivilegeNobody is mad at you for being white.This was posted on Google+
Returned to Sara Ahmed’s The Cultural Politic of Emotion today, and found these words particularly powerful…
Returned to Sara Ahmed's The Cultural Politic of Emotion today, and found these words particularly powerful:"I want to suggest here, cautiously, and tentatively, that an ethics of responding to pain involves being open to being affected by that which one...
Racism, sexism, and how teaching evaluations impact tenure for scholars of color. “In higher education…
Racism, sexism, and how teaching evaluations impact tenure for scholars of color. "In higher education, young people who may have never successfully completed a single college class are asked to review people who have several advanced degrees. Because segregation...
Gayatri Spivak on violence and nonviolence
Gayatri Spivak on violence and nonviolence?When Law Is Not Justice - The New York TimesRule of law may be good for business, but in many parts of the world it’s not enough to ensure basic rights.This was posted on Google+
” There is a difference between focus and exclusion. If something matters, this does not imply that …
" There is a difference between focus and exclusion. If something matters, this does not imply that nothing else does. If l say “Law Students Matter” it does not imply that my colleagues, friends, and family do not. Here is something else that matters: context....
Bachmannpreis geht an Sharon Dodua Otoo
Bachmannpreis geht an Sharon Dodua OtooDie in Berlin lebende Schriftstellerin Sharon Dodua Otoo hat am Sonntag den diesjährigen Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis bekommen. Sie überzeugte mit der Geschichte über ein spießiges Pensionistenpaar - und ein denkendes...