Prof. Dr. Sieglinde Lemke

Prof. Dr. Sieglinde Lemke sie/ihr

Lehrstuhl Nordamerikastudien

• sieglinde.lemke@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
• +49 761 203-3349
• Raum 4050, Erdgeschoss
  KG IV
• Sprechstunden
  Donnerstag: 14:00–15:00 Uhr
  Terminvereinbarung:  calendly.com/sieglinde-lemke/15min

Mehr zur Person

Profil

Curriculum Vitae

2021 – 2022                                                                                         Executive Director of the English Department
                                                                                                                 Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

2016 – 2017                                                                                         Deputy Equal Opportunity Commissioner, Philological Faculty
                                                                                                                Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

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Lehre im WiSe 2025/26

Vorlesung Introduction to Literary Studies
Vorlesung Phenomenal: American Artists’ Struggle against Sexism
Proseminar Poetry & Photography: Perspectives on America
Proseminar Reel Conflict: Cinematic Fault Lines in Mainstream Film
Haupt-/Masterseminar Voices from the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond

Promotionen

Laufende

Jennifer Howard „Higher Ground in a Divided Nation: Civil religion in America“ 

Theresa Marx „Symbiocentric Tropes in CoFuturisms: Cocreating Justice“

Abgeschlossen

Shane Frankiewicz „The Western: A Diachronic Analysis of the All-American Genre“

Samad Sharif „The Discourse on Non-Violence“

Publikationen

Monographien

• Inequality, Poverty, and Precarity in Contemporary American Culture. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.
• The Vernacular Matters of American Literature. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.
• Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
• Cultural Studies Bibliography. John F. Kennedy Institute Working Papers. Berlin: Zentrale Universitätsdruckerei, 1996

Herausgeberschaften/Editionen/Übersetzungen

• Class Divisions in Serial Television. Co-edited with Wibke Schniedermann. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.
• Literary and Cultural Studies, Theory and the (New) Media. Co-edited with Monika Fludernik, Frankfurt: Schriftenreihe Peter Lang, 2015.
• Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature: Festschrift für Winfried Fluck zum 60. Geburtstag. Co-edited with Thomas Claviez and Ulla Haselstein. Heidelberg: Winter, 2006.
• Zora Neale Hurston. The Complete Stories. Co-edited with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Harper Collins, 1995.

Artikel und Aufsätze

• Ecoliteracy: Skills for Sustainable Education.“ Climate Education. ISRF Bulletin 29. Ed. Lars Cornelissen. London: Independent Social Research Foundation, 2024. 51-64.
• „When Humans Connect with Post-Humans.“ Learning Machines: Artificial Intelligence and Humanities Knowledge. ISRF Bulletin 28. Ed. Lars Cornelissen. London: Independent Social Research Foundation, 2023. 43-55.
• „Precarious Photojournalism: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the Unrepresentable.“ The Routledge Companion to Media and Poverty. Ed. Sandra Borden. London: Routledge, 2021. 43-53.
• „A Transdisciplinary Cultural Studies‘ Approach to Inequality: What Can We Learn from Precarity Studies and Why Does Art Matter?“ Equality: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Eds. François Levrau & Noel Clycq. New York: Palgrave, 2021. 321-46.
• „Precarious Art and the Aesthetics of the Precarious Gaze.“ FRAME 30.2, 2017. 61-80.
• „American Exceptionalism in the Age of Inequality.“ Towards a Post-Exceptionalist American Studies. Eds. Winfried Fluck and Donald Pease. Tübingen: Günter Narr, 2014. 359-73.
• „Working Poverty in the U.S.: Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bestseller Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America and its Countercultural Legacy.“ LISAA. Special issue on poverty: Representations of Poverty. Ed. William Dow. Paris: Minard, 2013. 22-34.
• „Poverty and Class Studies.“ American Studies Today: New Research Agendas. Eds. Winfried Fluck, Erik Redling, Sabine Sielke and Hubert Zapf. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. 71- 99.
• „Liberty: A Transnational Icon.“ Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies. Eds. Winfried Fluck, Donald Pease and John Carlos Rowe. Hanover/New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Press, 2011. 193-218.
• „Der Amerikanische Traum und die Lebensrealität der Amerikaner.“ Freiburger Universitätsblätter 139 (2011): 139-51.
• „Facing Poverty: Towards a Theory of Articulation.“ Regarding the Poverty of Others, or: Beyond the Culturalization of Class. Eds. Michael Butter and Carsten Schinko. Spec. issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies 55.2 (2010): 95-122.
• (with Felicitas Hentschke) „Tabuisierte Sexualität im Que(e)rschnitt der Filmgeschichte Hollywoods.“ Tabu. Eds. Claudia Benthien, Ortrud Gutjahr. München: Wilhelm Fink, 2008. 219-45.
• „Du Bois: Of the Coming of John.“ The Oxford Companion to The Souls of Black Folk. Ed. Shamoon Zamir. Oxford University Press, 2008.
• „Diaspora Aesthetics: Exploring the African Dispora in the Works of Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence and Jean Michel Basquiat.“ Exiles, Diasporas, and Strangers. Ed. Kobena Mercer. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. 122-45.
• „Aesthetics of Transgression: Awe, Alterity, and Apprehension in The Scarlet Letter.“ Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature: Festschrift für Winfried Fluck zum 60. Geburtstag. Eds. Thomas Claviez, Ulla Haselstein and Sieglinde Lemke. Heidelberg: Winter, 2006. 163-94.
• „Vernacular Aesthetics.“ Cultural Interactions: 50 Years of American Studies in Germany. Eds. Berndt Ostendorf and Ulla Haselstein. Heidelberg: Winter, 2005. 139-59.
• „Theories of American Culture in the Name of the Vernacular.“ Theories of American Culture: Theories of American Studies. Eds. Winfried Fluck and Thomas Claviez. Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 19. Tübingen: Narr, 2003. 155-74.
• „Primitivist Modernism.“ Primitivism and 20^th Century Art: A Documentary History. Eds. Jack Flam and Miriam Deutsch. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 240-55.
• “Response to Todd Gitlin and Susan Armitage.” Transnational America: The Fading of Borders in the Western Hemisphere. Ed. Berndt Ostendorf. Heidelberg: Winter, 2002. 231-37.
• “Transatlantic Relations: The German Du Bois.” German? American? Literature? New Directions in German – American Studies. Eds. Winfried Fluck and Werner Sollors. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 207-16.
• “Trans-Culturalism.” Double-Crossings: Entrecruzamientos. Ed. Carlos Von Son. San  Diego: Ediciones Nuevo Espacio, 2001. 22-37.
•  “Hybridity the Subtext of Modernism.” Crossover: Cultural Hybridity and Ethnicity, Gender, Ethics. Ed. Therese Steffen. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2000. 49-60.
• “Berlin and Boundaries: Sollen vs. Geschehen.” Boundary 2 27.3 (2000): 45-78.
•  “Hamlin Garland.” Metzler Lexikon amerikanischer Autoren. Eds. Bernd Engler and Kurt Müller. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2000.
• “Joel Chandler Harris.” Metzler Lexikon amerikanischer Autoren. Eds. Bernd Engler and Kurt Müller. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2000.
• “James Weldon Johnson.” Metzler Lexikon amerikanischer Autoren. Eds. Bernd Engler and Kurt Müller. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2000.
• “Nella Larsen.” Metzler Lexikon amerikanischer Autoren. Eds. Bernd Engler and Kurt Müller. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2000.
•  “Mapping the Harlem Renaissance.” Mapping African America: History, Narrative Formation and the Production of Knowledge. Eds. Maria Diedrich, Carl Pedersen and Justine Tally. FORECAAST 1. Hamburg: LIT, 1999. 119-28.
•  “A Forgotten Legacy.” Lifting as They Climb: The History of the National Association of Colored Women. Eds. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis. Schomburg Library Series. New York: MacMillan, 1996. XV-XXXIII.
• “Blurring Generic Boundaries: Zora Neale Hurston: A Writer of Fiction and Anthropologist.” The Anthropological Turn in Literary Studies. Ed. Jürgen Schläger. Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 12. Tübingen: Narr, 1996. 163-78.
•  “Josephine Baker.” Dictionary of American Negro Biography. Eds. Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995. 233-4.
•  “White on White Act 2.” Transition 64 (1994): 110-12.
•  “White on White: When the West Represents the Rest, Who Comes off Worse?” Transition 59 (1993): 145-54.
•  “Im Zeichen des FORDschritts”. Amerikastudien 38.38 (1993): 251-63.
•  “Schwarze (Über-)Lebenskunst”. Perspectives on Multiculturalism in North America. Ed. Carol W. Pfaff. Materialien 33. Berlin: John F. Kennedy Press, 1992. 121-38.

Interviews und Pressemeldungen

• Podcast: Willkommen im Club – der queere Podcast von PULS. 23. April 2025 | „Trump gegen die LGBTQIA+ Community: So schwer ist es gerade, queer in den USA zu sein (164)“
• Interview mit Zeit Online. 14. Februar 2025. | „Wie Donald Trump gegen Diversität vorgeht“.
• Video-Podcast / Youtube: Jung & Naiv: Folge 665.
  11. October 2023 | Amerikanistin Sieglinde Lemke über die US-Demokratie & ihre Geschichte.
• Gespräch mit René Pfister. Sprache und Denken im Wandel: Über kollektive (Selbst-)Zensur, Meinungsfreiheit und das Ringen um Gerechtigkeit. 22. November 2022 | Debattenkultur in Gefahr? im Rahmen der Themenwoche ‚Inclusive Language and Cultures of Transformation‘
• Podiumsdiskussion | Eine Uni ein Buch. 21. Juli 2022 | Die Darstellung von Hass, Ausgrenzung und Diskriminierung in den unterschiedlichen Kultursparten
• Videopodcast der Universität Freiburg. 20. Juli 2022 | Die Rolle der USA im Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine
• uniCROSS Freiburg. 21. April 2022 | Colorism: Die Dimensionen von Rassismus
• uni’hören auf die Ohren – der Wissenschaftspodcast aus Freiburg 8. April 2021 | Folge 5: Die Wut der Abgehängten
• SWR2 am Morgen. 20. Januar 2021 | „USA-Expertin Lemke vor der Amtseinführung des neuen US-Präsidenten: Biden muss ‚vier Jahre toxischer Polarität‘ beenden“
• Online-Magazin der Universität. Freiburg 9. November 2020 | „Jede Stimme zählt – Die Amerikanistin Sieglinde Lemke über den Ausgang der Präsidentschaftswahl in den USA“
• United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney. 4. Februar 2014 | „Poverty and inequality in America – Interview with Sieglinde Lemke“ & „Sieglinde Lemke Teaser Interview – Overcoming Poverty in the United States“
• ABC Radio National. 1. Februar 2014 | „Rising income inequality“ Audio Stream
• Konferenz: Arm, nicht sexy: Repräsentationen von Armut in der amerikanischen Gegenwartskultur. 21. – 23. Juni 2011 | „Tom Stone: Artist Statement, University of Freiburg, 2011“ & „Tom Stone on Poverty in the U.S.: A lecture moderated by Professor Sieglinde Lemke
• Konferenz: Too Big to Ignore: Narratives of Inequality. 9. Juli 2012 | Uniradio – Interview zur Konferenz (Audio-Mitschnitt)
• Schweizer Radio DRS „Armut in den USA“ (Audio-Mitschnitt)
• Die Samstags-Uni – Mythos in Antike und Gegenwart (WS 2010/11). 27. November 2010 | „Vom Mythos des ‚American Dream‘ und der Lebensrealität der Amerikaner“
• uni’leben – Die Zeitung der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. 02’2010 | „Auf dem Weg in die Unterwelt. Einblicke in eine von Obdachlosen bewohnte Zeltstadt bei Los Angeles“ (S. 9)
• Badische Zeitung. 22. Juni 2010 | „Geschlecht, Rasse und Klasse. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak bei der Frias-Tagung in Freiburg“

Rezensionen und Sonstiges

• Rev. of The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 by Lawrence Jackson. “African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges”, Amerikastudien/American Studies 55.4 (2010).
• Rev. of Einführung in die Amerikanistik / American Studies by Udo Hebel. “How to Introduce American Studies?”, Anglia 128.2 (2010).
• Rev. of Gender–Voice–Vernacular: The Formation of Female Subjectivity in Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker. ZAA XLIX 2.2 (2001): 197-8
• “Prekärer Blick. Wie Literatur, Medien und Kunst Armut und soziale Ungleichheit in den USA der Gegenwart zeigen.” uni’wissen – Das Forschungsmagazin der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg 2/2015. 8-11.
• “Viel Streit um wenig Stoff. Talare: Ja oder Nein?” uni’leben – Die Zeitung der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg 5/2010. 10.
• “Auf dem Weg in die Unterwelt: Einblicke in eine von Obdachlosen bewohnte Zeltstadt bei Los Angeles.” uni’leben – Die Zeitung der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg 2/2010. 9.
• “Camp der Hoffnungslosen: Wohin das reiche Amerika seine Armen abschiebt: Zu Besuch in einer Tent City bei Los Angeles.” Badische Zeitung Feb. 27, 2010.

Vorträge

• 2023
  • “Feminist Awakenings at the Turn of the Century, Perkins Gilman’s Yellow Wallpaper.”
    Eucor Lecture Series | January
  • „Kulturwissenschaft und Klimagerechtigkeit.“
    Alles im Blick? Interdisziplinäre Vortragsreihe Nachhaltigkeit. | January
  • “Do AIs Make Better Lovers? On Post-Human Consciousness and Affect.”
• 2020
  • „Economic Inequality and the Rising Death Toll as Decisive Factors“
    Freiburg University / Carl-Schurz-Haus | October
  • „The Digital Condition and Humanities Knowledge“
    Athens University | Sep
• 2019
  • „Sex and Gender in the Age of Posthumanism“
    Gießen University | November
  • „Die Inszenierung von Kampfsportler*innen im Film“
    Freiburg University | October
  • „Armut betrachten: Eine kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektive“
    University of Erlangen–Nürnberg | May
  • “When Hollywood Sensationalizes Underdogs: Precarity and Precariousness in Slumdog Millionaire and The Hunger Games“
    University of Delhi, India | February
  • “Workshop: Global Poverty“
    Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India | February
  • “Precarity Studies: An Interdisciplinary Research Field“
    Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India | February
• 2018
  • “Cultural Precarity Studies: The Making of a Transdisciplinary Field”
    University of Kerala, India | December
  • “Representing Refugees: A Response to Lewis Turner on the Image of the Entrepreneur and the Neoliberal Logic“
    Anton-Bergsträsser Institute, Freiburg | November
  • “Critical Media Literacy: Analyzing American Beauty“
    Gießen University | October
  • “Precarious Escapes: Hillbilly Elegy and Unorthodox“
    Conference Hamburg University | June
  • “On the Economy of Expenditure and Anecdotal Pleasure”
    Conference FU Berlin | February
  • “Precarious Representations vs. Representations of Precarity: On Hunger Games, Moonlight, and Hillbilly Elegy„
    Freiburg University | January
• 2017
  • “American Art from 1930-1960″
    Paul Klee Exhibition, Bern | December
  • “Precarity Studies and Aesthetics: From Transdisciplinary Diversity Towards a Pentagonal Critical Framework“
    Conference GAPS, Univ. Bonn | May
  • „Class Matters in the Age of Trump“
    New York | March
  • „The Expansion of Boundary Conditions in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God„
    Philadelphia MLA, January
• 2016
  • “Postfeminism and Hollywood”
    Freiburg, Gender Studies Lecture Series | December
  • “A Threesome: Anthropology, Poetry, and Prose”
    Conference Basel University | November
  • “Nachhaltigkeit: Brennpunkt USA”
    Freiburg | June
• 2015
  • “The Great Inequality Debate. Wie Ungleichheit in der zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Literatur verhandelt wird”
    Freiburg | October
  • “Inequality in America: A Discourse Analysis”
    Freiburg | June
• 2014
  • “Poverty and Inequality in America”
    US Studies Center, Sydney | February
• 2013
  • “The Financial Crisis of 08 and Narratives of Working Poverty”
    Gießen | July
  • “Desire – Bliss – Loss: Lust und Verlust im amerikanischen Imaginären”
    Lausanne-Vallorbe, Switzerland | June
  • “Not so Invisible: Footprints of Globalization in the Rural South”
    Erlangen | May
  • “Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Writings: Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction”
    Bern, Switzerland | May
  • “Economies of Misfortune: Visual Impressions from the Deep South”
    Carl-Schurz-Haus Freiburg | April
  • “How America Discovered Working Poverty and Learned to Live with it”
    Georgetown, Washington D.C., USA | March
  • “U.S. Poverty Studies: A European Perspective“
    Rice University Houston, USA | March
• 2012
  • “Literatur, Visuelle Kultur und Sozialgeschichte”
    University of Freiburg | December
  • “Introduction to Obama, Suffrage, and Disenfranchisement”
    Electoral Cultures Conference, Amerika-Haus München | November
  • “Narratives of Inequality from Grapes of Wrath to The Pursuit of Happyness”
    International Conference Too Big to Ignore: Narratives of Inequality
    University of Freiburg | July
  • “The Romantic Tradition Meets Realism in 19^th Century American Fiction”
    University of Salamanca, Spain | April
  • “Dream On: American Exceptionalism Reconsidered”
    University of Salamanca, Spain | April
  • “Facebook: Superpower, Stasibook, Cash Cow: On Performative Individualism and the Surplus Value of Friends”
    University of Freiburg | February
• 2011
  • “Going to War. Trials and Tribulations in the Bush Era”
    University of Freiburg | December
  • “Icon Trouble: The Continuous Refashioning of Miss Liberty”
    Carl-Schurz-Haus Freiburg | November
  • “The Future of Class and Poverty Studies”
    FU Berlin | November
  • “Empathie, Imagination, Ästhetik”
    Semiotikkongress, University of Potsdam | October
  • “Down and Out in Ontario”
    University of Freiburg | July
  • “Tom Stone, Photography, and the Art of the New Documentary”
    University of Freiburg (FRIAS) | July
  • “Racism Made in America”
    Wort, Macht, Stamm: Rassismus und Determinismus in der Philologie des 19. Jahrhunderts
    University of Potsdam | May
• 2010
  • “Bestsellers on America’s Working Poor: Documenting the Microcosm of Want”
    University of Freiburg (FRIAS) | December
  • “Vom Mythos des ‘American Dream’ und der Lebensrealität der Amerikaner”
    University of Freiburg | November
  • “Amerika und Trauma im 21. Jahrhundert”
    University of Hamburg | July
  • “Black ART-lantic”
    University of Erfurt | July
  • “The Culture of the Dispossessed: America in the Age of Obama”
    Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan | April
  • “Gang Tours, Obamaville, Skid Row: On the Paradox of Poverty Portraiture”
    Harvard University | March
• 2009
  • “Representing the Nation: Poetry and the Struggle over Signification”
    Vienna University | October
  • “I Spy: It’s Internationally Renowned, Female & All-American”
    University of Hamburg | May
• 2008
  • “Lady Liberty: A Transnational Icon par excellence”
    FU Berlin | October
  • “Poverty and Transnational Perspectives in American Studies”
    University of Freiburg | December
  • “’Give me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses, Yearning to Breathe Free’: Towards a Transnational Visual Poetics”
    FU Berlin | October
  • “When Butler meets Barbie: Queering the All-American Icon of the Cheerleader”
    University of Freiburg: Geschlechterstudien (Vorlesungsreihe) | May
  • “Von amerikanischen Träumen und amerikanischen Räumen”
    Inaugural Lecture, University of Freiburg | February
  • “New Historicism Reconsidered”
    University of Freiburg: Literaturtheorie (Vorlesungsreihe) | January
• 2007
  • “How Lohengrin Made it into The Souls of Black Folk”
    International Conference African Americans in Berlin: The Story of an Intellectual Encounter
    J.F.K. Institute FU Berlin, November
  • “Diaspora Aesthetics”
    International Conference Narratives About American Art
    J.F.K. Institute FU Berlin | May
  • “African-American Migration”
    Carl-Schurz Haus Feiburg | January
  • “Some Don’t Like it Hot: Ein Que(e)rschnitt durch Hollywoods Filmgeschichte”
    University of Hamburg | January
• 2006
  • “The Cryptic Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat”
    UCSB, Santa Barbara | October
  • “Pictures in a Floating World: Globalism in American Art”
    USC, Los Angeles | October
  • “Diasporic (Post-) Modernism: Aaron Douglas’s and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Grand Spectacles of the African Diaspora”
    INIVA Institute London | July
  • “The German DuBois”
    Cross-Overs Conference, CAAR, Münster | March
• 2005
  • “Life, Diagnostics and Ways of Seeing in The Portrait of a Lady”
    University of Hamburg | December
  • “A Poetics of Space”
    Workshop der ASA, Washington | November
  • “Area Studies in the USA”
    Konferenz des Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin: Die Zukunft der Regionalforschung
    Berlin | July
  • “Europeans at the Gate: On Transnational American Studies”
    University of Potsdam | July
  • “Alterity, Altruism, and Androgyny in The Scarlet Letter”
    University of Freiburg | June
  • “Ethnic Neorealism: New Trends in American Literature“
    University of Bielefeld | May
  • “The Sound of Post-Apartheid South African Fiction”
    DGfA, Frankfurt | May
  • “CrossRoutes of Transatlantic Scholarship”
    NYU, New York | April
  • “American Ethnicity: A Transnational vs. an Intra-national Paradigm”
    International Conference about European Perspectives on American Studies, FU Berlin | February
• 2004
  • “Globalizing  American  Studies”
    Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa | December
  • “From the ‘Talking Book’ to Representing the Unspeakable”
    Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin | November
  • “The Black Atlantic – Theorie und Praxis schwarzer Identität”
    Host. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin | September
  • “A New American Literature: Writing from the Margins”
    University of Basel | August
  • “Aesthetics and Politics: A Response to Leo Marx”
    J.F.K. Institute FU Berlin | April
  • “New Trends in American Studies”
    Munich University | February
• 2003
  • “What Does Germany Have to Do with The Souls of Black Folk?”
    Bates College, Maine | October
  • “A Post-Nationalist Approach to American Literature”
    Dartmouth College, New Hampshire | October
  • “Towards a Postcolonial Aesthetics”
    University of Gießen | September
  • “Vernacular Aesthetics”
    Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, University of München | June
  • “‘Race’ und ‘Gender’ im Konflikt”
    HU Berlin | May
  • “Comparative American Studies?”
    University of California at Irvine | April
• 2002
  • “A Multicultural Aesthetics Before the Age of Multiculturalism”
    University of California at Riverside | March
  • “Deviant Divas”
    University of California at Irvine | February
• 2000
  • “Response to Todd Gitlin and Susan Armitage”
    Transatlantic America Conference, University of Munich | July
  • “Du Bois in Berlin
    HU Berlin | June
  • “Reconsidering Modernism”
    University of California at Irvine | April
• 1999
  • “Du Bois and his Student Years Abroad”
    W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge | September
  • “Multiculturalism and the Visual Arts”
    J.F.K. Institute FU Berlin | July
  • “Du Bois in Berlin”
    J.F.K. Institute FU Berlin | July
  • “Recycling Radicalism”
    Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, Uni Köln | June
• 1998
  • “Josephine Baker: Mehr als Bewegung”
    Moveo, Berlin | December
  • “The German Du Bois”
    Trans-Coop Conference, Harvard University | September
  • “Hybridity: The Subtext of Modernism“
    Symposium on Hybridity, Ethnicity, Gender, and Ethics, University of Basel | July
  • “Odd Sisters: Anti- and Postfeminism”
    University of Warschau, Poland | May
  • “Celebrating the African Past, Performing the Black Vernacular”
    Workshop, EAAS Conference, University of Lisbon | April
  • “Primitivist Modernism”
    Columbia University, New York, March
  • “Jean Toomer”
    Harvard Conference, Sorbonne, Paris | January
  • 1997
  • „Negro’ or Mapping the Harlem Renaissance”
    CAAR Conference, Liverpool | April
• 1996
  • “Mixed Media? Visual Media/Media Visions”
    University of Cologne | July
  • “Josephine Baker: The Ambassador of Jazz”
    Sorbonne, Paris | April
  • “From Waiting to Exhale to Waiting for Godot”
    Symposion zur Literatur der afrikanischen Diaspora, Salamanca | March
• 1995
  • “Blurring Generic Boundaries”
    J.F.K. Institute FU Berlin | November
  • “Zora Neale Hurston: A Writer of Fiction and Anthropologist”
    Konferenz zu Literatur und Anthropologie, Universität Konstanz | October
• 1994
  • “The Harlem Renaissance”
    NEH Seminar. Wheelock College, Boston | May
  • “Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”
    W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge | October
  • “Performing Difference“
    J.F.K. Institute FU Berlin | June
  • “Die Ikonen der Moderne”
    Ringvorlesung, J.F.K. Institute FU Berlin | June
  • “Im Zeichen des FORDschritts”
    Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, University of Münster | October