Transverse Disciplines : : Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University / / ed. by Carrie Smith, Simone Pfleger.

For at least a decade, university foreign language programs have been in decline throughout the English-speaking world. As programs close or are merged into large multi-language departments, disciplines like German studies find themselves struggling to survive. Transverse Disciplines offers an overv...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 14 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface: Forging Alliances in the Burning Present
  • Introduction: Transversal Thinking, Accountabilities, and Commitments
  • Section 1: Situating Disciplinarity: Diagnoses, Genealogies, and Possibilities
  • 1. Recomposing the Humanities: Transversal Legacies, Localized Futures
  • 2. Beyond Germanistik: Transverse Approaches to German Studies in Australia
  • 3. Imagining German Studies for the Future
  • 4. Diversifying the German Curriculum through Student Research
  • Section 2: Against Insularity
  • 5. Critical Interventions in Land-Grant Epistemologies
  • 6. Unsettled Memory: Learning about the Holocaust at a United States Prison
  • 7. Anxious Trajectories: Game Studies and German Studies
  • 8. Thinking Inconveniently: A Neuroqueer Project on Mathematics and Lyric Poetry
  • 9. Making Academic Publishing More Public
  • Section 3: Speculative Methodologies and Radical Relationality
  • 10. Collaborative Infrastructures for Feminist German Studies
  • 11. “Sometimes I dream of different kinds of plants”: Assemblage, Defiance, and Tenuous Connection
  • 12. Anti-Blackness in German Studies
  • 13. Beyond Disciplinary Belonging: Constructing a Scholarly Self through Interactions and Relationality
  • 14. German Studies, Home, Hospitality: Decolonial Possibilities and a Politics of Place?
  • Contributors
  • Index