Priscilla Layne is Associate Professor of German and Adjunct Associate Professor of African Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For the latest information, please visit: https://gsll.unc.edu/layne/
Network-related publications include:
Out of this World: Afro-German Afrofuturism. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2025.
Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun. New York: Camden House, 2024.
With Lisabeth Hock and Michelle James (eds.). Afrika and Alemania: German-Speaking Women, Africa, and the African Diaspora. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025.
With Lily Tonger-Erk (eds.). Staging Blackness. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2024.
With Ela Gezen and Jonathan Skolnik (eds.). Minority Discourses in Germany Since 1990. New York: Berghahn, 2022.
“Utopias of Restorative Justice: Speculative Fiction, Gender and Violence in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Adas Raum(2021; Ada’s Realm, 2023),” in Violence Elsewhere 2: Imagining Distant Violence in Germany since 2001, edited by Clare Bielby and Mererid Puw Davies, 209–31. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2024.
“Drawing on Pain: Depicting Disability and Trauma in Mikael Ross’ Graphic Novel Der Umfall,” in The Health Humanities in German studies, edited by Stephanie M. Hilger, 111-124 London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
“New Black German Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century,” in Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany: Radical Diversity and Literary Interventions, edited by Selma Rezgui, Laura Marie Sturtz and Tara Talwar Windsor, 83-108. New York: Camden House, 2024.
“Adapting Black Masculinity in Melvin van Peebles’ The Story of a 3-Day Pass,” in Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness, edited by Charlene Regester, Cynthia Baron, Ellen C. Scott, Terri Simone Francis, and Robin G. Vander, Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2024, 205-224.
“‘Her mit dem schönen Leben’: Happiness and Access in Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020), in Transnational German Film at the End of Neoliberalism: Radical Aesthetics, Radical Politics, edited by Claudia Breger and Olivia Landry. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2024, 32-49.
“Multilingualismus im Unterricht am Beispiel von Gedichten von Schwarzen Deutschen,” in IDT 2022: *mit.sprache.teil.haben Band 5: Sprachenpolitik und Teilhabe, edited by Thomas Fritz, Brigitte Sorger, Hannes Schweiger und Sandra Reitbrecht. 275-285.
“Identity and Diversity in Postunification Germany,” in The Oxford Handbook of German Politics, edited by Klaus Larres, Holger Moroff and Ruth Wittlinger. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 417-431.
With Ela Gezen and Johnathan Skolnik, “Introduction,” in Minority Discourses in Germany Since 1990, edited by Ela Gezen, Priscilla Layne and Johnathan Skolnik. New York: Berghahn, 2022. 1-38.
With Ervin Malakaj, “Resisting the Traps of Hegemony: Variating in Contemporary German Queer of Color Cinema,” in The Routledge Companion to European Cinema, edited by Gábor Gergely and Susan Hayward. New York: Routledge, 2022. 374 – 384.
“The Kids Are All Right: Futurity and Black German Childhood in SchwarzRund’s Biskaya (2017),” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 60.2 (2024): 123-145.
With Jakob Norberg, “Herder and the Black Slave,” Monatshefte Volume 115, Number 4, Winter (2023): 553-572.
“Teaching German from a Decolonial Perspective: Critical Dystopia as Critique of Race, Gender, and Class in Unternehmer,” Der Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 10 (2023): 1-5.
“A Feminist Rewriting of Kleist? Öziri’s and Nübling’s Die Verlobung in St. Domingo – Ein Widerspruch.” Critical Stages/ Scènes critiques. June No. 27 (2023). https://www.critical-stages.org/27/a-feminist-rewriting-of-kleist-oziriand-nublings-die-verlobung-in-st-domingo-ein-widerspruch/
“From Postmigrant to Posthuman: The Performance of Simone Dede Ayivi.” TDR: Drama Review, Volume 67, Issue 2 (2023): 85–104.
With Corine Tachtiris. “Special Focus Introduction: Centering Black Cultural Production in Translation.” Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature. 47.1 (2023): 1-6.
With Kira Thurman. “Introduction: Black German Studies.” The German Quarterly 95.4 (2022): 359-371.
With Inci Dirim. “Dialog zur Bedeutung diskriminierungskritischer Zugänge.” Zeitschrift für Deutsch im Kontext von Mehrsprachigkeit. (2022): 228 – 235.
“‘That’s How It Is’: Quotidian Violence and Resistance in Olivia Wenzel’s 1000 Coils of Fear.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 55:1 (2022): 38 – 60.