U.S. Embassy Teacher Academy 2004

Re-Writing America: Multi-Ethnic Perspectives in Literature and the Media

Faculty

Dr. Kirsten Twelbeck

Dr. Kirsten Twelbeck is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Hannover. Her dissertation No Korean is Whole – Wherever He or She may be: Erfindungen von Korean America seit 1965 (Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang Verlag, May 2002) deals with literary and cultural representations of Korean Americans within the complex field of stereotyping, gender, the turbulent history of Korean immigration, the Korean War, American foreign politics, and globalization. Dr. Twelbeck’s academic interests include ethnic studies, postcolonial theory, gender studies, theories of intercultural translation and community construction, and the interrelationship between literary texts and photography. Her current research focuses on imaginary constructions of a national community during the American Civil War and the Reconstruction period.