Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
Saturday, Sept. 7th at 3:30pm
Priscilla Layne is Professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and an Adjunct Associate Professor in African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also the Director of the Center for European Studies. Her Ph.D. in German is from UC Berkeley. Her publications include White Rebels in Black: Appropriating Black Popular Culture in Postwar Germany (Michigan University Press) and a critical guide to Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun with Camden House. Her monograph, Out of this World: Afro-German Afrofuturism, is forthcoming with Northwestern University Press.