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Beverly Weber is Professor of German Studies at the 麻豆影院. Her research and teaching interests include the intersections of race, gender, and migration in Germany and Europe; comparative studies of racialization; digital activism; contemporary visual cultures; contemporary German literature and culture; and Islam in Europe.听 Her interdisciplinary work is informed by feminist cultural studies frameworks, with a current focus on theories of precarity and intimacy; and incorporates analysis of popular media, literature, film, food and gardening.
Her first book, Violence and Gender in the 鈥淣ew鈥� Europe: Islam in German Culture (Palgrave 2013), examines racist and Islamophobic responses to gender violence in German politics and news media, as well as Muslim women鈥檚 challenges to gender violence and racism in literature, art, and popular media. Her co-authored book (with Maria Stehle) entitled Precarious Intimacies: The Politics of Touch in Contemporary European Cinema (Northwestern University Press, 2020), explores intimate friendships and relationships in films about those living extremely precarious lives 鈥� particularly refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants. She is currently working on projects around refugee cultural production as well as the politics of food and gardening.
She serves as an inaugural steering committee member for the collective Diversity and Decolonization in the German Curriculum (DDGC), is a member of the DDGC working group for Mutual Aid, and is co-editor for the journal Feminist German Studies.