Denison 146A
Biography
Beverly Weber (Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Dept.) teaches courses on German Film during the Cold War and post unification German film. Her interest in film stems from her research on Turkish German culture. She is particularly interested in the representations of gender, race and culture as well as issues surrounding transnational film production.
Further research and teaching interests include the intersections of race, gender, and migration in Germany and Europe; contemporary German culture; Turkish-German and immigrant cultures; and Islam in Europe. Her interdisciplinary work is informed by cultural studies frameworks and theories of globalization, and incorporates analysis of popular media, literature, and film. She has published in German Politics and Society, German Quarterly, and Women in German Yearbook on topics including Germany’s headscarf debates, representations of Muslim women in Germany, and the work of Christa Wolf. Her current book project, Headscarves and Miniskirts: Muslim Women in Germany and the Politics of Representation.
Other current projects include articles on New York in German literature after September 11th, on contemporary memoirs by Muslim women in Germany, on theorizing violence in integration debates, and on the discussions about forced prostitution in the context of the 2006 World Cup (together with Kirsten Isgro and Maria Stehle).
She received a PhD in Comparative Literature and a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; MA degrees in Comparative Literature and German from the Pennsylvania State University; and a BA with majors in English and German from Gustavus Adolphus College.
FILM 3513: German Film After WWII
FILM 3514: German Film & Society after 1989