Most Recent Project
Rodando en La Habana: bicycle stories
Rodando en La Habana: bicycle stories premiered at the prestigious International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in December 2015. I served as associate director and research co-investigator on this documentary that explores the cultural meaning of bicycling and community in this Caribbean capital.
Other Projects
A Journal of Germanic Studies: "The New Berlin"
A project in collaboration with Karin Bauer from McGill University that treats the New Berlin as created through various cultural productions and gestures to the contemporary importance of the rising global culture of creative forms of dissent through the occupation of urban physical and ideational space.
Keep Reading...LinguaeLive
Keep Reading...Connecting people learning each other’s language. A tool developed by teachers for students to work with peers in complementary language classes, no matter how far away.
Sun, Sex and Socialism: Cuba in the German Imaginary
Keep Reading...A project that explores transnational communities beyond Germany's division of East and West. In Sun, Sex, and Socialism, Jennifer Ruth Hosek offers a broad-reaching history of the influence of the global South on the global North.
Christa Wolf: A Companion
Co-edited with Sonja E. Klocke, University of Wisconsin, a broad-ranging introduction to the East German luminary Christa Wolf, her work and times that builds upon and moves beyond foundational interpretative frameworks by articulating the global relevance of her oeuvre today.
Keep Reading...Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin
Co-edited with Karin Bauer, McGill, this interdisciplinary anthology explores Berlin's unique cultural topographies in literature, film, architecture, urban planning, and city marketing.
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