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Weber, Beverly

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  • Beverly Weber's research focuses on refugee cultural production, race and racisms, the intersections of race, gender, and migration; and contemporary literature and culture in Germany and Europe. Her interdisciplinary work is informed by feminist cultural studies frameworks and critical race studies. She incorporates analysis of news media, literature, film, performance, and graphic journalism into her work. She currently teaches courses on racisms in Europe after 1970, Holocaust memory, film, literature, and refugee culture. Her current book project, Decolonizing Hospitality, examines the ways in which refugee art and culture constructs new forms of hospitality, welcome and sanctuary in the face of extreme precarity and racism. Her co-authored manuscript Precarious Intimacies (with Maria Stehle) examines precarity, race, gender, and intimacy in contemporary European cinema.

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  • refugees in Germany, feminisms, race gender and migration in Germany and Europe, comparative racializations, contemporary German literature and culture, Turkish-German culture, immigrant culture, Islam in Europe, theories of intersectionality, violence

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  • AHUM 3681 - Refugees in German Culture
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2024
    Introduces the diversity of refugee migration in German culture through artistic and cultural "texts," including those created by or in collaboration with refugees (film, comic journalism, literature, blogs, hashtag campaigns, music, etc). These texts are discussed in relationship to theories of racism, precarity, and biopolitics together and contextualized by work from other disciplines. This interdisciplinary course is methodologically informed by the theory and practice of cultural studies. Same as GRMN 3681, JWST 3681 and IAFS 3681. Taught in English.
  • AHUM 4301 - Gender, Race and Immigration in Germany and Europe
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
    Introduces students to debates surrounding migration and race in contemporary Germany. Emphasis on reading texts in context using tools of cultural studies, integrating analyses of gender, race, nation, and sexuality. Texts may include film, literature, television, magazine images, etc. Topics include: questioning multiculturalism, self-representation, integration, Islam, citizenship, violence, public space, youth culture, racism and nationalism. Taught in English. Same as WGST 4301 and GRMN 4301 and GRMN 5301.
  • CINE 3513 - German Film and Society 1945-1989
    Secondary Instructor - Fall 2024
    Introduces issues in German society through film during the Cold War. Focus on East and West Germany, though some other German language films may be included. Emphasis is on reading films in their social, historical and political contexts. Taught in English. Same as GRMN 3513.
  • FILM 3513 - German Film and Society 1945-1989
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019
    Introduces issues in German society through film during the Cold War. Focus on East and West Germany, though some other German language films may be included. Emphasis is on reading films in their social, historical and political contexts. Taught in English. Same as GRMN 3513.
  • GRMN 2502 - Representing the Holocaust
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2019
    Examines representations of the Holocaust in film, memoirs, poetry, novels, graphic novels, memorials. Considers questions such as: How to depict an event that resists representation? How does the memory of the Holocaust transform over generations? How do representations of the Holocaust inform our understanding of other experiences of racism and genocide? What ethical issues are at stake? Taught in English. Same as JWST 2502.
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