Jamele Watkins

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D.: German Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Specialties

• German literature and history
• Black women writers
• Black/African Diaspora Studies
• Performance studies
• German Film

Publications

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Publications

• Rearticulating Black Feminist Thought in Heimat, bittersuesse Heimat": University of Nebraska Press, Watkins, Jamele, Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature and Culture, 32, 138-151, 2016.
• Performing Oppression and Empowerment in real life: Deutschland: Tiffany Florvil, Vanessa Plumly, Peter Lang, Watkins, Jamele, Rethinking Black German Studies Approaches, Interventions and Histories, Studies in modern German and Austrian literature ; v. 7, 2018.
• Silence as an Interlocutor in the Diaspora: Olumide Popoola’s this is not about sadness. DeGruyter, Watkins, Jamele, 2019.

Courses

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Courses

• GSD 3511 Vikings, Knights, Reformers
• GSD 3512 Imagined Communities
• GER 3661 African Americans in Germany
• GER 3634 Women and Nonbinary Authors in German