Author: Eva Tanita Kraaz
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Rethinking the West: Promise and Crisis of a Concept
This essay by Matthew Childs corresponds to and builds upon a shorter piece regarding the conference “Rethinking the West: Promise and Crisis of a Concept” that took place on December 15, 2022, at the University of Münster.
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Only a Romantic Would Call Her Daddy
Kai Sina on why Susan Sontag never spoke about Hannah Arendt in great detail, although she was an intellectual role model for her.
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Transatlantic Intellectual Exchange in the Postwar Era
A »manifesto of humanity« (Dolf Sternberger): About the postwar journal »Die Wandlung« (1945-9). An Essay by Anna Axtner-Borsutzky
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Provenance. Approaches to a Transatlantic Material History of Literature
Focusing on provenance as an epistemic category, Caroline Jessen suggests to examine our hidden, yet persisting commitment to the notion of a national literature as an example of challenging the narratives implicit to our current understanding of archives.
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Transatlantic Archives and the Chronotope
Transatlantic archival research can be both a reason for utmost scholarly enthusiasm and a reason to question the carbon footprint of our work. An essay by Tobias Boes
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The Transatlantic Origins of Double Consciousness: W.E.B. Du Bois in Germany
Ellwood Wiggins traces the resonances of Du Bois’s double consciousness in Friedrich Schiller’s essay »On Naive and Sentimental Poetry« (»Über naive und sentimentale Dichtung«) and suggests that they have important implications for contemporary society.
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Transatlanticism and Translation
Sandra Richter on the imbalances of transatlantic cultural transfers.
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Transatlantic Uneasiness: Perks and Pitfalls of Crossing the Pond
Jan Behrs examines the academic career of the German-born Harvard professor Kuno Francke (1855–1930).
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Francis Daniel Pastorius: German-American Literature in the Early Transatlantic
Using F. D. Pastorius as an example, Hartmut Hombrecher explains why transatlantic research should always focus on the reciprocal nature of cultural transfer.
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Blickwechsel: On Transatlantic German Studies, from a Brazilian Perspective
Wiebke Röben de Alencar Xavier discusses the potentials and challenges of a transatlantic approach to German Studies — not only in Brazil.