Jiann-Chyng Tu
Office hours: Thursdays 11-12 and per appointment by email.
Tel: 0345 55-23549
Raum: E.04
E-mail: jiann-chyng.tu@amerikanistik.uni-halle.de
Academic Positions
| Since 05/2024 | Lecturer (wiss. Mitarbeiter), Amerikanistik/Literaturwissenschaft, MLU Halle-Wittenberg |
| 2014-2023 | various adjunct lecturer positions (Lehrbeauftragter) at Universität Augsburg, Universität Regensburg, Universität Bamberg, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 05/2020-04/2023 | Lecturer (wiss. Mitarbeiter), Chair of American Studies, Universität Regensburg |
| 05/2016-09/2017 | Lecturer (Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben), Chair of American Studies, Universität Münster |
Education
- Dr. phil. candidate in North American Literature and Culture, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- M.A. American Studies (Amerikanistik), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2013
- B.A. German and English, Wake Forest University, 2008
Research Interests
- Transnational American studies
- Multiethnic American literature, culture, and literary history
- W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois
- Paul Robeson and Eslanda Goode Robeson
- US American food and foodways
- American literature and culture in East/West Germany
Current Projects
- Friendship as Praxis: Eslanda Goode Robeson's Transnational Alliances and Solidarities
- The Transnational African American Novel and Germany (WT), Dissertation
- Food, Identity, and Memory in Contemporary Asian American Culinary Memoirs