ZIP Visiting Professor in the Spring 2022

We are very happy to announce that in the Spring 2022 semester our Center will be hosting Prof. Carsten Junker from TU Dresden, Germany. He is a University Professor of American Studies with a focus on Diversity Studies, interested in North American literatures and cultures including Canada and the Caribbean from the seventeenth century to the present, with a special emphasis on the connections between formalizations of cultural patterns and social differentiations, including discursive struggles. Prof. Junker will be staying at the ASC for two months, from February to April 2022. He will be teaching the lecture “Writing against Slavery: Early American Abolitionist Discourses and their Repercussions” as a part of the MA studies program, will give a talk within the American Studies Colloquium Series, and will be available for individual consultations, especially for students interested in African American literature and culture.