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Jiann-Chyng Tu

Academic Positions

• Since 05/2024, Lecturer (wiss. Mitarbeiter), Amerikanistik/Literaturwissenschaft, MLU Halle-Wittenberg
• 2014-2023, various adjunct lecturer positions (Lehrbeauftragter) at Universität Augsburg, Universität Regensburg, Universität Bamberg, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• 05/2020-04/2023, Lecturer (wiss. Mitarbeiter), Chair of American Studies, Universität Regensburg
• 05/2016-09/2017, Lecturer (Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben), Chair of American Studies, Universität Münster

Education

• Dr. phil. candidate in North American Literature and Culture, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• M.A. American Studies (Amerikanistik), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2013
• B.A. German and English, Wake Forest University, 2008

Research Interests

• Transnational American studies
• Multiethnic American literature, culture, and literary history
• W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois
• Paul Robeson and Eslanda Goode Robeson
• US American food and foodways
• American literature and culture in East/West Germany

Current Projects

• Friendship as Praxis: Eslanda Goode Robeson's Transnational Alliances and Solidarities
• The Transnational African American Novel and Germany (WT), Dissertation
• Food, Identity, and Memory in Contemporary Asian American Culinary Memoirs

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