Jamele Watkins

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• PhD: 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.
• Watkins, Jamele, Jennifer L. Creech and Thomas O. Haakenson. "Afrolocken : Natural Hair in German Literature and Media." How to Make the Body: Difference, Identity, and Embodiment (2022).
• Watkins, Jamele, Simone Pfleger and Carrie Smith. "Anti-Blackness in German Studies." Transverse Disciplines : Queer-feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University (2022).

Courses

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Courses

• GSD 3511W Vikings, Knights, Reformers
• GSD 3512W Imagined Communities
• GER 3661 African Americans in Germany
• GER 3634 Women and Nonbinary Authors in German
• GER 3104W Reading and Analysis of German Literature
• GSD 3451W Major Project Seminar: Capstone
• GER 3421 18th Century Literature
• GSD 3681 Black Central & Northern Europe