Christina OppelChristina Oppel is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at the English Department at the University of Münster, Germany. She graduated from the University of Münster with a degree (Staatsexamen) in History, English and Paedagogics and worked as the DAAD German Language Assistant at the Department of German at the University of Bristol, GB in 2005/6. She further worked as a research and teaching assistant at the English Department (WWU Münster) from 2007 to 2008 and was endowed an eight month doctoral grant by the German Academic Language Service (DAAD). Her main fields of research and teaching include (African) American Cultural Studies, the History of Human Rights, African American and German History, Black Atlantic and Diaspora Studies. In her doctoral dissertation, which she conducts under transnational interdisciplinary supervision at the Universities of Münster, Germany, and Seton Hall, USA, (Harnessing Germany. African Americans, Nazi Germany and Human Rights) she works on Germany and Human Rights in the African American literary and historical discourse. Christina Oppel initiated the research network in spring/summer 2007. She has published three articles in the thematic scope of the network: „(Re)writing 20th Century Slavery: Postmodern Representations of African American Third Reich Experience(s),“ From Black To Schwartz. Cultural Crossovers between African America and Germany, ed. Maria I. Diedrich, Juergen Heinrichs (2009). „W.E.B. Du Bois, Nazi Germany and the Black Atlantic,“ Beyond the Nation. American History in Transnational Perspective, e.d Uwe Luebken, Thomas Adams (Bulletin of the German Historical Insstitute Washington DC, Supplement 5) 2008. The article was commented on in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung (FAZ). Next to representations of Nazi Germany in African American texts, her interests also include representations of Germany in the larger postcolonial „Black Holocaust“ and slavery discourse. See "(Re)writing 20th Century Slavery: Maillet's L'Étoile Noire," Postcolonial Slavery: Colonialism's Legacy, eds. Charlotte Baker and Jennifer Jahn (Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies), Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2008).
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