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Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies:
The Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz offers a dynamic and wide-ranging program in both research and teaching for all students interested in topics related to the Americas in a global context.
With a special focus on interculturality, transnationalism, and interdisciplinarity, our expertise lies in the fields of Early American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Life Writing/Life Sciences, Political & Intellectual History, Film & Media Studies, Religion and American Culture, and Materiality.
Alfred Hornung, Speaker, Obama Institute
Alfred Hornung is the Speaker of the Obama Institute and Research Professor of American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. He is Honorary Chair Professor at Shandong University and a member of Academia Europaea, a pan-European Academy of humanities, letters, law, and sciences.
Julia Velten, Assistant Professor, Obama Institute
Julia Velten is an assistant professor at the Obama Institute. She was a member of the DFG Research Group “Un/doing Differences: Practices of Human Differentiation” and was a visiting scholar at the Trent Centre for Aging and Society. Her research and teaching focuses on environmental humanities, political discourses in US culture and media, aging studies, and medical humanities.
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Cora Monroe González, Coordinator, UPR-M
Cora Monroe González earned her PhD from Yale, and graduated from Princeton several years before Michelle Obama. Her research centers on French-language life writing and autofiction. Two current projects involve the autofiction of Azouz Begag and a nineteenth-century, Louisiana Afro-Créole example of figurational life writing, Nos Hommes et notre histoire, by Rodolphe Desdunes. A former Air Force “brat,” Monroe González has lived between languages, accents and nations in her native Puerto Rico, the US and France.
Michael Huffmaster, Coordinator, UPR-M
Michael Huffmaster was raised in Alabama and is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley. He works at the intersection of language and literature. His current book project, Reading Kafka’s Mind: The Cognitive Poetics of a Translingual Imagination, uses cognitive theory to explain the Kafkaesque. In literary linguistics, his work focuses on speech act theory, metaphor theory, and translation. In language and literature education, his research investigates how adult foreign language and literature study fosters critical and creative thinking and promotes the core democratic values of liberal education.
