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Lehrstuhlinhaber:in / Chair

  • N.N. (Vertretung Prof. Dr. Julia Faisst) 

Professors

      Präsident der Universität                        Regensburg (April 2013 - )

 

 

Amerikanistik/American Studies at Regensburg University explores the multiethnic and multilingual diversity of North American literatures and cultures in their regional, national, and global manifestations from pre-Columbian times to the present.

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The Regensburg European American Forum (REAF) is the central platform for international cooperation, scholarly exchange, political intervention, and public outreach in the field of American Studies at the University of Regensburg.

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FORSCHUNGSRATING 
WISSENSCHAFTSRAT

In a nationwide research rating by the German Council of Sciences and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat) of December 2012, Regensburg's American Studies department achieved outstanding results and has established itself among the very best German research institutes in the field.

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The Regensburg Chair of American Studies supports in solidarity the position statement of the Diversity Roundtable of the German Association for American Studies:

“We, the speakers of the Diversity Roundtable of the German Association for American Studies, want to take this moment to publicly condemn the recent wave of white supremacist violence in the United States as well as in Germany. We want to express our condolences to the victims’ loved ones, and to affirm our support for liberation movements such as Black Lives Matter, at home and abroad.
Scholars like Patricia Hill Collins remind us of the necessity to always speak out against racist violence. Its pervasiveness can be overwhelming and produce silence by which such violence, in turn, can become neglected, invisible, and implicitly legitimated over time in hegemonic discourse (Hill Collins, “It’s All in the Family: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Nation” 66).

 

At the same time, we heed Sara Ahmed’s warning that mere declarations of anti-racist commitment and solidarity are not necessarily performative speech acts that translate into concrete actions or effects in and beyond our research and institutional lives (Ahmed, “Declarations of Whiteness”). What opportunities for individual and collective anti-racist action does this moment of global protest present? We urge you to consider actions such as donating to organizations that are actively combatting anti-Black violence in the United States and in Germany. We are also grateful to receive your ideas on further modes of support and public intervention that we can undertake as members of the Diversity Roundtable and the larger German Association for American Studies.

 

As academics from a wide range of scholarly traditions within American Studies, we have versatile capacities to unearth intersecting oppressive structures such as sexism, racism, ableism, and anti-queerness. We would like to encourage one another to acknowledge that there are many ways to oppose anti-Blackness.

 

Cedric Essi, Helen Gibson, Anna-Lena Oldehus”

  1. INSTITUT FÜR ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK

American Studies

 

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American Studies
University of Regensburg
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