Becoming TransGerman

Thomas O. Haakenson is Associate Professor in both the Visual Studies Program and the Critical Studies Program at California College of the Arts. His books include Representations of German Identity (co-edited with Deborah Ascher Barnstone); Spectacle (co-edited with Jennifer L. Creech), and Jürgen Habermas and the European Economic Crisis: Cosmopolitanism Reconsidered (co-edited with Gaspare M. Genna and Ian W. Wilson). He has authored essays for New German Critique, Cabinet, Rutgers Art Review, German Studies Review and the anthologies Legacies of Modernism as well as Memorialization in Germany Since 1945. Tirza True Latimer is Associate Professor in the undergraduate Visual Studies Program and the graduate Visual and Critical Studies Program at California College of the Arts. Her books include Eccentric Modernisms: Making Differences in the History of American Art, Women Together / Women Apart: Portraits of Lesbian Paris, The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris Between the Wars (with Whitney Chadwick), and the exhibition companion book Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories (with Wanda Corn).Carol Hager is Professor of Political Science on the Clowes Professorship in Science and Public Policy at Bryn Mawr College. Her books include Technological Democracy: Bureaucracy and Citizenry in the German Energy Debate as well as NIMBY is Beautiful: Local Activism and Environmental Innovation Around the World (co-edited with Mary Alice Haddad). Hager co-founded Bryn Mawr College’s New Media Project and serves as Director of the Center for the Social Sciences.Deborah Barton is Assistant Professor of Modern German History at the Université de Montréal. She received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 2015. Her research interests focus on journalism, gender, the two World Wars, and representations of violence in the media. She is currently revising her manuscript, titled «Writing for Dictatorship, Refashioning for Democracy: Women Journalists in the Nazis and Post-war Press,» for publication.

«This engaging and groundbreaking book highlights how creative difference, non-stasis, and polyvalent identity – across a number of trans-Germanic medial texts and cultural contexts –might reconfigure today’s reactionary world into a new revolutionary place of social and political emancipation.» (Mirko M. Hall, Professor and Chair of Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, Converse College)

• CONTENTS: Thomas O. Haakenson: Introduction: What is «Becoming TransGerman»? – Tirza True Latimer: What Can Trans Do? – Barış Ülker: Going Beyond Spatial and Cultural Fixities Through Ernst Reuter’s Photographic Encounters in Turkey – Kristen Ann Ehrenberger: Autopsy, Authority and Affect: Body Voyaging in Anatomical Fairy Tales from 1920s-1940s Germany – Josch Hoenes: Mit Schmetterlingen denken: Der transvestitische Mensch in Magnus Hirschfelds Bilderteil zur Geschlechtskunde (Thinking with Butterflies: Transvestite Humans in Magnus Hirschfelds Illustrated Volume Sexual Science) – Ute Ritz-Deutch: TransGerman Experiences in Southern Brazil: The Stutzer Family in Blumenau, 1885-1887 – Thomas O. Haakenson: Transnational Dada and the Politics of Postcolonialism – Nichole Neuman: The Archive and Writing (German) Film History – Mine Eren: A Ghostly Matter: Almanya: Welcome to Germany as Transnational Feminist Film Praxis – Jennifer Miller: Instructional Visions: German Visual Messages to the First Generation of Turkish Guest Workers – Anson Koch-Rein: TransGerman Drag: Travestie für Deutschland, Homonationalisms, and Transgender Citizenship – Deborah Barton/Karin Goihl/Thomas O. Haakenson/Carol Hager/Tirza True Latimer: Berlin Workshop 5th Anniversary Discussion: Why «Becoming TransGerman» Matters Now More Than Ever.