CONTRIBUTOR:

Heike Raphael-Hernandez

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor

DEPARTMENT:

English Department

INSTITUTION:

University of Maryland University College, Europe and University of Würzburg, Germany

BIOGRAPHY:

Heike Raphael-Hernandez: Professor of English at the University of Maryland University College, Europe, and Professor in American Cultural Studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany. In 2009, she was Visiting Professor in the African Diaspora Studies Department at UC Berkeley. Together with Cheryl Finley (Cornell U) and Leigh Raiford (UC Berkeley), she recently was named ACLS Fellow; they were awarded a two-year Collaborative Research Fellowship for 2016-2017 for their joined research project “Visualizing Travel, Gendering the African Diaspora.” Among her publications are Contemporary African American Women Writers and Ernst Bloch’s Principle of Hope (2008), Fear, Desire, and the Stranger Next Door: Global South Immigration in American Film (2016); Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture (co-edited with Leigh Raiford, UC Berkeley; 2016), Blackening Europe: The African American Presence (edited, 2004); and AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics (co-edited with Shannon Steen; 2006).