Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- From Erfahrungshunger to Realitätshunger: Futurity, Migration, and Difference
- In-between: The Participant as Observer—The Observer as Participant
- Transatlantic Space and My Own History of Globalization
- Deplazierte Personen: Why Would an American Become a Germanist?
- Metamorphoses and Meanderings of a Wanderer between Worlds
- German Studies as Vocation: My Path into It, Out of It, and Back into It
- My Long Way from Germanistik to Afro German Studies
- Mustang Red: My American Road to Critical Theory
- Third Place: How a French Germanist Became an Applied Linguist in America
- Transatlantic Exchanges: German Studies—European and American Style
- Being at Home in the Other: Thoughts and Tales from a Typically Atypical Germanist
- After Australia: Triangulating an Intellectual Journey
- A Tale in Translation: An Academic Itinerary from Istanbul to Bryn Mawr
- Beyond Passing: Transculturation in “Contact Zones”
- Far from Where? Germanistik between the Continents
- Epilogue: The Usefulness of Useless Studies
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 February 2019
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- From Erfahrungshunger to Realitätshunger: Futurity, Migration, and Difference
- In-between: The Participant as Observer—The Observer as Participant
- Transatlantic Space and My Own History of Globalization
- Deplazierte Personen: Why Would an American Become a Germanist?
- Metamorphoses and Meanderings of a Wanderer between Worlds
- German Studies as Vocation: My Path into It, Out of It, and Back into It
- My Long Way from Germanistik to Afro German Studies
- Mustang Red: My American Road to Critical Theory
- Third Place: How a French Germanist Became an Applied Linguist in America
- Transatlantic Exchanges: German Studies—European and American Style
- Being at Home in the Other: Thoughts and Tales from a Typically Atypical Germanist
- After Australia: Triangulating an Intellectual Journey
- A Tale in Translation: An Academic Itinerary from Istanbul to Bryn Mawr
- Beyond Passing: Transculturation in “Contact Zones”
- Far from Where? Germanistik between the Continents
- Epilogue: The Usefulness of Useless Studies
- Index
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- Transatlantic German StudiesTestimonies to the Profession, pp. 281 - 290Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018