Jamele Christa Watkins
Postdoctoral Scholar, German Studies
Bio
Jamele Watkins researches and teaches on issues of race and gender in contemporary German performance, film, and literature (broadly speaking). She is currently working on a book project that focuses on Black internationalism and the solidarity campaigns for Angela Davis in the GDR. She completed her doctoral studies in German at UMass Amherst with the completion of dissertation, “The Drama of Race.” She has also studied at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, and Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Steering Committee Member, Coalition of Women in German (2015 - Present)
All Publications
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Silence as an Interlocutor in the Diaspora: Olumide Popoola's this is not about sadness
OPEN CULTURAL STUDIES
2019; 3 (1): 256–63
View details for DOI 10.1515/culture-2019-0023
View details for Web of Science ID 000471825100001
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Awkward Politics: Technologies of Popfeminist Activism (Book Review)
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO QUARTERLY
2018; 87 (3): 434–35
View details for DOI 10.3138/utq.87.3.95
View details for Web of Science ID 000455385500129