Prof. Dr. Nicole Waller (Universität Potsdam): "Decolonization as Relation to the Land? The Black Geographies of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer"
Wednesday, July 3, 2024, 12:15 pm, UA 135
Prof. Dr. Nicole Waller is professor for American Studies at the University of Potsdam. She received degrees from Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (M.A. in American Studies, Modern History, and Comparative Literature; Ph.D. in American Studies) and the City University of New York (M.A. in Germanic Languages and Literatures). Prof. Dr. Waller has held teaching assistantships at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, and Queens College, New York, a Ph.D. exchange fellowship at Columbia University, New York, and visiting/research fellowships at Louisiana State University and the American Antiquarian Society. In addition, she has held professorships at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (Juniorprofessur), Georg-August-University Göttingen (as interim professor), and Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg. She is a member of the Research Training Group minor cosmopolitanisms, which seeks to establish new ways of studying and understanding the cosmopolitan project against and beyond its Eurocentric legacies. As of January 2024, she is a Co-PI of the DFG-funded project "Settler Decolonization on Country/Land: Rehearsing Collaboration.”
For more information, please see here: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/iaa-amlc/academic-staff/prof-dr-nicole-waller