Nina Berman, PhD (University of California at Berkeley, 1994). Professor of International Letters and Cultures, 2016–; Director, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, 2016-2022. Previous teaching appointment: Ohio State University, 2001-2016; University of Texas at Austin, 1994-2001. Guest professor: Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, June 2014.
Research Areas:
Globalization Studies; humanitarianism; tourism; German orientalism and colonialism; Germans in Africa; disability studies; intercultural hermeneutics
Publications:
Books: Germans on the Kenyan Coast: Land, Charity, and Romance (Indiana University Press: January 2017); German Literature on the Middle East: Discourses and Practices, 1000-1989 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011; Outstanding Academic Title 2012, Choice); Impossible Missions? German Economic, Military, and Humanitarian Efforts in Africa ( Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2004); Orientalismus, Kolonialismus und Moderne: Zum Bild des Orients in der deutschsprachigen Kultur um 1900 (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1997).
Edited Books: Disability and Social Justice in Kenya: Scholars, Policymakers, and Activists in Conversation. Co-edited with Rebecca Monteleone (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022); German Colonialism Revisited: African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences. Co-edited with Klaus Mühlhahn and Patrice Nganang (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014).
Articles on: humanitarianism; orientalism; colonialism; world literature; minority literature; modernization; multiculturalism; tourism; ecoliteracy; Karl May; Hugo von Hofmannsthal; Ernst Udet; Albert Schweitzer; Bodo Kirchhoff; Salim Alafenisch.
Major Awards:
Educational Partnerships Program (Syria), US Department of State, 2006; Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2003 and 2004; President’s Associates Teaching Award, UT Austin, 1999; Dean’s Fellow, UT Austin, 1997: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Summer Research Grant, 1996.
Teaching:
Critical Theory; Globalization; World Literature: Translation Studies; Global Citizenship