Author: Eva Tanita Kraaz
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»Liftboy« and Professor: Peter Demetz’ Mode of Transatlantic Relationship Building
Germanisten in German Studies – Cosima Mattner sketches out the transatlantic history of literary criticism based on the example of Peter Demetz.
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Kafka’s Lasting Legacy: Why We Still Talk About Him 100 Years Later
Lauren J. Brooks tracks Kafka’s influence in contemporary TV shows and pop culture.
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Josephine Baker in the Transatlantic World
Katharina Gerund on different facets of Josephine Baker’s art and activism with a focus on their transatlantic dimension.
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From Farbe Bekennen to Showing Our Colors. Re-reading German Postcolonial Studies
Following the transatlantic traces of Farbe Bekennen (1986), Rita Maricocchi recontextualizes the anthology’s status in German postcolonial studies.
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A Medium of Transatlanticism: Newspapers in the Weimar Era
Jonathan Wipplinger on new tools, resources and reasons to study print media with regard to transatlanticism.
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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