Transatlantic German Studies (EPDF) von Paul Michael Lützeler

The prominent scholar-contributors to this volume share their experiences developing the field of US German Studies and their thoughts on literature and interdisciplinarity, pluralism and diversity, and transatlantic dialogue.

Introduction - Paul Michael Lützeler and Peter Höyng
FromErfahrungshunger toRealitätshunger: Futurity, Migration, and Difference - Leslie A. Adelson
In-between: The Participant as Observer-The Observer as Participant - Hans Adler
Transatlantic Space and My Own History of Globalization - Russell A. Berman
Deplazierte Personen: Why Would an American Become a Germanist? - Jane K. Brown
Metamorphoses and Meanderings of a Wanderer between Worlds - Walter Hinderer
German Studies as Vocation: My Path into It, Out of It, and Back into It - Robert C. Holub
My Long Way fromGermanistik to Afro German Studies - Leroy Hopkins
Mustang Red: My American Road to Critical Theory - Andreas Huyssen
Third Place. How a FrenchGermanist Became an Applied Linguist in America - Claire Kramsch
Transatlantic Exchanges: German Studies - European and American Style - Paul Michael Lützeler
Being at Home in the Other: Thoughts and Tales from a Typically AtypicalGermanist - Mark Roche
After Australia: Triangulating an Intellectual Journey - Judith Ryan
A Tale in Translation: An Academic Itinerary from Istanbul to Bryn Mawr - Azade Seyhan
Beyond Passing: Transculturation in "Contact Zones" - Lynne Tatlock
Far from Where?Germanistik between the Continents - Liliane Weissberg
Epilogue: The Usefulness of Useless Studies - Wilhelm Krull
Index