Transverse Disciplines: Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University

“This challenging and valuable volume refuses easy answers to difficult questions and models collaboration and speculative work as established and productive tools for transforming German studies, the academic sector, and neoliberal societies.” Tom Smith, University of St Andrews, Seminar

“This book offers concrete strategies and inspiring visions of just futures.” Faye Stewart, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, German Studies Review

"An important contribution to the field, Transverse Disciplines poses exactly the right questions about the future of German studies. The essays in this collection model the kinds of innovative teaching and research that are really going to be important in the coming years. This book will be of interest to professors of German studies, both advanced scholars who want to learn how the discipline is changing, as well as junior professors who are contributing to these changes. It will be a priceless resource for graduate students who are learning how to navigate the field and trying to determine what possible contribution they could make."

Priscilla Layne, Associate Professor of German and Adjunct Assistant Professor of African and Afro-American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Transverse Disciplines has a wonderful spirit of shared purpose. Each contribution in this collection is frank, fierce, courageous, and revealing. The blend of public research, activist approaches, methodological meditations, and experimental epistemologies makes this a perfect introductory book for graduate students. Black, Indigenous, decolonial, and feminist interventions are well represented, timely, and substantive. The knowledge-making and -sharing is fresh, compassionate, humane, and radical. What a triumph."

David Gramling, Professor of German Studies, University of British Columbia