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Vanessa Plumly Lawrence University |
| List Affiliations: | Review Editor for H-Black-Europe |
| Interests: | Black History / Studies Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies Comparative Literature European History / Studies Film and Film History German History / Studies Humanities Immigration History / Studies Jewish History / Studies Languages Modern European History / Studies Political History / Studies Visual Studies Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
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Bio: Vanessa D. Plumly is Assistant Professor of German and affiliate faculty in Ethnic and Global Studies at Lawrence University. She is also an Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow. Formerly, she was a German Lecturer and the Program Coordinator of German in the department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures at SUNY New Paltz. She has published articles on surveillance in the German television series Tatort, the intersectionality of fear and violence in recent German historical contexts (the Wende and Cologne 2015), and on the integration of German Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past) and protest into the second-year German language curricula in the German Studies Review, Women in German, and Die Unterrichtspraxis, respectively. Plumly has two forthcoming chapters in edited volumes, focusing on research drawn from her dissertation, “BLACK-Red-Gold in der ‘bunten Republik’: Constructions and Performances of Heimat/en in Post-Wende Black/Afro-German Cultural Productions" in which she assessed the performance and discursive construction of the German concept of home (Heimat) in relation to the German nation and the African Diaspora and for which she received a number of grants and fellowships. She is currently co-editing a volume contracted with Peter Lang on Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions, and Histories with Tiffany Florvil. Plumly and Florvil organized two Black German Studies seminars for the 2014 and 2015 GSA Conferences. Plumly has presented at local, regional, national, and international conferences on her research in the field of BGS and at conferences in the field of German Studies and beyond (e.g. "Global Black Girlhood," MESEA, the upcoming International Conference of Europeanists, etc.). Additionally, Plumly has organized multiple panels submitted to the Black Diaspora Studies Network for the GSA, since its founding in the winter of 2015. |
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