Professor Dr. Maria Diedrich

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Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • African American Studies
  • Diaspora Studies
  • New Migration Studies
  • Gender Studies

Academic Education

01/1983Habilitation, English Department, Ruprecht Karls-Universität Heidelberg
12/1976Ph.D., British and American Studies Department, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Afro-American Writers and the CPUSA
04/1975 - 12/1976Ph.D. studies, British and American Studies Department, Philipps-Universität Marburg
10/1969 - 03/1975Undergraduate and graduate studies in British/American Studies and Political Science, Philipps-Universität Marburg
11/1974State Examination/Teaching Degree, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Work Experience

since 10/2013Professor Emerita of American Studies, English Department, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
since 04/1984W.E.B. Du Bois Research Fellow, Harvard University
04/1995 - 09/2013Professor of American Studies (C4), English Department, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
10/1989 - 03/1995Professor of American Studies (C3), English Department, Leibniz Universität Hannover
04/1985 - 09/1989Assistant Professor, English Department, Ruprecht Karls-Universität Heidelberg
10/1986 - 03/1987Professor of American Studies (C4, substitute), British and American Studies Department, Universität Regensburg
02/1977 - 03/1985 Assistant Professor, English Department, Ruprecht Karls-Universität Heidelberg
04/1975 - 03/1976Research and Teaching Assistant, British and American Studies Department, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Functions and Memberships

since 1991 Editorial board of Les Cahiers Charles, Sorbonne, Paris
1997 - 2011General editor of the FORECAAST series (Forum for European Contributions in African American Studies, LIT-Verlag)
1986 - 2009Fellowship comittee, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, student scholarships
1996 - 2008General editor of the African American Electronic Research Library Project (Matthews; University of Virginia Press) (with H.L. Gates/Harvard University and Ch. Mulvey/King Alfred’s College)
1999 - 2002Founder and first president of the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR)
1997 - 2000Editorial board of the Encarta Africana
1989 - 2000 Editorial board of Amerikastudien/American Studies
1992 - 1996Vice president and board member of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS)

Publications

Diedrich Maria (2016)
In: Lennox Sara (eds.), Remapping Black Germany: New Perspectives on Afro-German History, Politics, and Culture. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Diedrich Maria (2012)
In: Hebel Udo (eds.), Transnational American Studies. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Diedrich Maria (2011)
In: Mayer Sylvia, Müller Marika (eds.), Beyond Uncle Tom’s Cabin: The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Madison, N.J.: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Diedrich Maria, Heinrichs Jürgen (eds.) (2010)
Berlin, Münster: LIT Verlag.
Type of Publication: Book (edited collection)
Diedrich Maria (2010)
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
Type of Publication: Book (monograph)
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Doctorates

“In the beginning was Auschwitz”: Second Generation Post-Memory Writings
Candidate: Fehn, Silja | Supervisors: Diedrich, Maria
Period of time: until 31/12/2016
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Transnational Black Dialogues: Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century
Candidate: Nehl Markus | Supervisors: Diedrich, Maria
Period of time: until 14/01/2016
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Der "Simple Jedermann" und die "Schwarze Rose": Afroamerikanische Texte im Druckgenehmigungsverfahren der DDR
Candidate: Rapp, Anna | Supervisors: Diedrich, Maria
Period of time: until 31/12/2015
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Savage Horrors: Reiterating the American Gothic for the 21st Century.
Candidate: Lenhardt, Corinna | Supervisors: Diedrich, Maria I.; Sarkowsky, Katja
Period of time: 01/10/2008 - 01/10/2015
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
The 'Black Horror' in the Black Press: Re-Negotioations of 'Germany' in the African American Press during the 'Black Horror on the Rhine' Campaign (1919-1923)
Candidate: Schmidt, Jochen | Supervisors: Diedrich, Maria; Dickel, Simon
Period of time: until 24/02/2015
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
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