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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\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Network-related publications include<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of this World: Afro-German Afrofuturism<\/em>. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fassbinder\u2019s<\/em> The Marriage of Maria Braun<\/em>. New York: Camden House, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Lisabeth Hock and Michelle James (eds.). Afrika and Alemania: German-Speaking Women, Africa, and the African Diaspora<\/em>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Lily Tonger-Erk (eds.). Staging Blackness<\/em>. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Ela Gezen and Jonathan Skolnik (eds.). Minority Discourses in Germany Since 1990<\/em>. New York: Berghahn, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUtopias of Restorative Justice: Speculative Fiction, Gender and Violence in Sharon Dodua Otoo\u2019s Adas Raum(2021; Ada\u2019s Realm, 2023),\u201d in Violence Elsewhere 2: Imagining Distant Violence in Germany since 2001<\/em>, edited by Clare Bielby and Mererid Puw Davies, 209\u201331. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDrawing on Pain: Depicting Disability and Trauma in Mikael Ross\u2019 Graphic Novel Der Umfall<\/em>,\u201d in The Health Humanities in German studies<\/em>, edited by Stephanie M. Hilger, 111-124 London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNew Black German Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century,\u201d in Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany: Radical Diversity and Literary Interventions<\/em>, edited by Selma Rezgui, Laura Marie Sturtz and Tara Talwar Windsor, 83-108. New York: Camden House, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAdapting Black Masculinity in Melvin van Peebles\u2019 The Story of a 3-Day Pass<\/em>,\u201d in Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Her mit dem sch\u00f6nen Leben\u2019: Happiness and Access in Berlin Alexanderplatz <\/em>(2020), in Transnational German Film at the End of Neoliberalism: Radical Aesthetics, Radical Politics<\/em>, edited by Claudia Breger and Olivia Landry. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2024, 32-49.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMultilingualismus im Unterricht am Beispiel von Gedichten von Schwarzen Deutschen,\u201d in IDT 2022: *mit.sprache.teil.haben Band 5: Sprachenpolitik und Teilhabe<\/em>, edited by Thomas Fritz, Brigitte Sorger, Hannes Schweiger und Sandra Reitbrecht. <\/em>275-285.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIdentity and Diversity in Postunification Germany,\u201d in The Oxford Handbook of German Politics<\/em>, edited by Klaus Larres, Holger Moroff and Ruth Wittlinger. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 417-431.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 With Ela Gezen and Johnathan Skolnik, \u201cIntroduction,\u201d in Minority Discourses in Germany Since 1990<\/em>, edited by Ela Gezen, Priscilla Layne and Johnathan Skolnik. New York: Berghahn, 2022. 1-38.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 With Ervin Malakaj, \u201cResisting the Traps of Hegemony: Variating in Contemporary German Queer of Color Cinema,\u201d in The Routledge Companion to European Cinema<\/em>, edited by G\u00e1bor Gergely and Susan Hayward. New York: Routledge, 2022. 374 \u2013 384.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Kids Are All Right: Futurity and Black German Childhood in SchwarzRund’s Biskaya (2017),\u201d Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies<\/em>, 60.2 (2024): 123-145.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Jakob Norberg, \u201cHerder and the Black Slave,\u201d Monatshefte <\/em>Volume 115, Number 4, Winter (2023): 553-572.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTeaching German from a Decolonial Perspective: Critical Dystopia as Critique of Race, Gender, and Class in Unternehmer,\u201d Der Unterrichtspraxis\/Teaching German<\/em> 10 (2023): 1-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cA Feminist Rewriting of Kleist? \u00d6ziri\u2019s and N\u00fcbling\u2019s Die Verlobung in St. Domingo \u2013 Ein Widerspruch.<\/em>\u201d Critical Stages\/ Sc\u00e8nes critiques<\/em>. June No. 27 (2023). https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/27\/a-feminist-rewriting-of-kleist-oziriand-nublings-die-verlobung-in-st-domingo-ein-widerspruch\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom Postmigrant to Posthuman: The Performance of Simone Dede Ayivi.\u201d TDR: Drama Review<\/em>, Volume 67, Issue 2 (2023): 85\u2013104.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Corine Tachtiris. \u201cSpecial Focus Introduction: Centering Black Cultural Production in Translation.\u201d Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature<\/em>. 47.1 (2023): 1-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Kira Thurman. \u201cIntroduction: Black German Studies.\u201d The German Quarterly<\/em> 95.4 (2022): 359-371.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Inci Dirim. \u201cDialog zur Bedeutung diskriminierungskritischer Zug\u00e4nge.\u201d Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Deutsch im Kontext von Mehrsprachigkeit<\/em>. (2022): 228 \u2013 235.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018That\u2019s How It Is\u2019: Quotidian Violence and Resistance in Olivia Wenzel\u2019s 1000 Coils of Fear<\/em>.\u201d Novel: A Forum on Fiction <\/em>55:1 (2022): 38 \u2013 60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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\u2019s The Marriage of Maria Braun. New York: Camden House, 2024. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":49,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-773","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgingblackfreedomstruggles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgingblackfreedomstruggles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgingblackfreedomstruggles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgingblackfreedomstruggles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgingblackfreedomstruggles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bridgingblackfreedomstruggles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/bridgingblackfreedomstruggles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/773\/revisions\/1144"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgingblackfreedomstruggles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgingblackfreedomstruggles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}