Nicole Waller

Nicole Waller (born June 24, 1970 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German philologist , Americanist and university professor.

Life

Due to the job of her father, who worked for Lufthansa , Nicole Waller grew up partly outside of Europe. She returned to Germany for her Abitur.

From 1989 she studied American studies, modern history and comparative literature at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (PhD 2004) and German literature and literature at the City University of New York .

Waller has been Professor of American Literature and Culture at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Potsdam since 2013 . Before that, she taught the subject as a junior professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , as a deputy professor at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and from 2011 to 2013 as a professor at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg .

She deals, among other things, with American discourses on Islam, African-American literature, American territoriality , as well as with post-colonial theory and Caribbean studies. Her more recent work deals with questions of territoriality and indigenous sovereignty in North America.

Waller is part of the DFG graduate school minor cosmopolitanisms, which primarily trains doctoral students in a network of partner universities in South Africa, India, Australia and North America.

Publications (selection)

Fonts

• Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction (with Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein and Dirk Wiemann ). JB Metzler, Berlin 2019.
• "Connecting Atlantic and Pacific: Theorizing the Arctic." Atlantic Studies, vol. 15, no. 2, 2018. pp. 256–278. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14788810.2017.1387467?scroll=top&needAccess=true
• “Foreign in a Domestic Sense”: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's My Beloved World and Transnational American Studies, ”in Alfred Hornung (Ed.): Obama and Transnational American Studies , Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2016. pp. 455-470.
• Contradictory Violence. Revolution and Subversion in the Caribbean [cf. Diss.] . Universitätsverlag Winter , Heidelberg 2005. ISBN 978-3-8253-5020-8
• American Encounters with Islam in the Atlantic World . Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2011. ISBN 978-3-8253-5885-3

Editing

• with Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein and Dirk Wiemann : Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2019.
• Politics in Fantasy Media: Essays on Ideology and Gender in Fiction, Film, Television and Games (with Gerold Sedlmayr ). McFarland & Company , Jefferson, North Carolina 2014.
• The Sea is History: Exploring the Atlantic (with Carmen Birkle ). Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2009, Series American Studies Vol. 177, ISSN  0178-1987

Web links

• Biography on the website of the institute
• Literature by and about Nicole Waller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Nicole Waller  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nicole Waller new in American Studies , (University of Würzburg, December 13, 2011) ( Memento from November 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Biography Nicole Waller (University of Potsdam; accessed on November 12, 2016) ( Memento from November 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Professorship at MWFK (Ministry for Science, Research and Culture, State of Brandenburg, March 15, 2013)
4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Nicole Waller. Accessed April 29, 2020 (German). 
5. ↑ DFG - GRK 2130: Minor Cosmopolitanisms. Accessed April 29, 2020 (German). 
6. ↑ Minor Cosmopolitanisms - Graduate School on Global and Local Cultures opens | WIS Science Days in the Potsdam Education Forum. In: WIS - Bildungsforum Potsdam. Retrieved April 29, 2020 .