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Heike Raphael-Hernandez
Heike Raphael-Hernandez is Professor of American Studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany.
Biography
Heike Raphael-Hernandez is Professor of American Studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Among her publications as editor are Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture (with Leigh Raiford, U of Washington Press, 2017); a special issue (with Pia Wiegmink) for the journal Atlantic Studies about “German Entanglements in Transatlantic Slavery” 14.4. (Fall 2017), republished as a book (Routledge, 2018); Blackening Europe: The African American Presence (Routledge 2004); AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics (with Shannon Steen, NYU Press, 2006), and Holding Their Own: Perspectives on the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the US. (with Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Stauffenburg, 2000). She is author of Contemporary African American Women Writers and Ernst Bloch’s Principle of Hope (Edwin Mellen Press, 2008) and Fear, Desire, and the Stranger Next Door: Global South Immigration in American Film (U of Washington Press, forthcoming). Together with Cheryl Finley (Cornell U) and Leigh Raiford (UC Berkeley), she was awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Collaborative Research Fellowship for 2015-2017 for their joined research project “Visualizing Travel, Gendering the African Diaspora.”Books
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