Gabriele.Dietze@staff.hu-berlin.de

Biography

Gabriele Dietze studied Germanic Literature, Philosophy and Social Sciences at Goethe Universität, Frankfurt (Main). She worked as a literary editor for Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin, and completed her PhD at the John F. Kennnedy Instiute for American Studies at the Freie Universität, Berlin with a dissertation on "Hard-Boiled Women. Sex-Wars in American Mystery Novels". She earned her Habilitation in 2004 at the Humboldt University, Berlin with a thesis on "Negotiating Justice. The Competition of 'Race'- and Gender-Emancipation Discourse from 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' to the O.J. Simpson Trial." She received various research fellowships, among others at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard, the NYU and Columbia University. Ms Dietze was Robert Bosch visiting professor at the University of Chicago 2004 and has a guest professorship at the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft at Humboldt, summer 2006.

Research Interests

Gender-, Media- and Postcolonial Studies, intersectionalities of 'race' and gender, especially Critical Whiteness Theory