M.A. Daniel Holder

Daniel Holder, M.A.

 

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  • Daniel A. Holder, M.A.
  • International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture
  • Alter Steinbacher Weg 38
  • 35394 Giessen


Research Interests

    19th and 20th-Century African American Literature and Culture
    African American History in Transnational Perspective
    Cultural History of the Cold War
    Race & Radicalism in U.S. History
 
 

Education

10. 2009 - Present : Justus-Liebig-Universität

  • Giessen, Germany
  • Phd. in American Studies

08. 2005 - 05. 2006 : University of Florida

  • Gainesville, Florida
  • African American Literature/African American Studies

10. 2002 - 02. 2009 : Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität

  • Bonn, Germany
  • American Studies (Regionalwissenschaften Nordamerika), Political Science, American History
  • Degree: Magister Artium
 
 

PhD Project

RE-WRITING THE UN-AMERICAN SELF: McCARTHYISM, BLACK MASCULINITIES AND LIFE WRITING


My dissertation project deals with the intersection of African American life writing, McCarthyism, and the construction of black masculinities. It aims to investigate how life writing functions as a privileged space in re-writing Un-Americanism, showing that the strategic recurrence on an African American autobiographical tradition explicitly counters and protests the stigmatization of 'redness' and 'Un-Americaness' and is thus of crucial importance to a defense of the self in U.S. early Cold War culture. Doing so, I will draw on both published autobiographies and biographies, as well as on unpublished archival material.
 
 

Awards

    Ambassador's Award in American Studies. Prize for the best transdisciplinary M.A. thesis in the field of North American Studies at the University of Bonn in the academic year 2008/2009, awarded by the U.S. Embassy
      Stefan Kleinwächter-Preis. Award for the best M.A. thesis at the Department for Anglo-American History at the University of Cologne in the academic year 2008/2009

      Grants

      John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Library Research Grant. John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies. Freie Universität Berlin. February 15-March 12, 2010.
       
       

      Articles

        "'I Got a Home in that Rock': Paul Robeson's Here I Stand and Cold War Resistance to McCarthyism." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. Forthcoming 2012.
        with Andreas Hübner and Ottilie Klein. "Editorial." COPAS: Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies 13 (2012). link

      Edited Volumes

        with Andreas Hübner and Ottilie Klein. COPAS: Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies 13 (2012). link

      Reviews

        Rev. of Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe, by Tina M. Campt. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2012. Feministische Studien 30.2 (November 2012): 348-49.
        Rev. of Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex: Race, Madness, Activism, by Tony Perucci. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. H-Soz-u-Kult. Forthcoming 2012.
        Rev. of The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950, by Robert Bone and Richard A. Courage. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2011. Vingtième Siècle: Revue d'histoire. Forthcoming 2012.
        Rev. of The Problem of the Future World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Race Concept at Midcentury, by Eric Porter. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010. Obsidian: Literature in the African Diasporas. Forthcoming 2012.
        "Afroamerikanische Literaturgeschichte, überblicksartig in siebenundzwanzig Teilen." Rev. of A Companion to African American Literature. Gene Andrew Jarrett (ed.). San Francisco, Toronto and West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2010. Kult_Online 26 (2011). link
        "'Made in America', anders gedacht." Rev. of A New Literary History of America. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors (eds.). Cambridge and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. Kult_Online 25 (2010). link
        Rev. of Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era, by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. H-Soz-u-Kult (09.09.2010). link
        "'What Happens When We Put the Left at the Center?': Re-Reading Ann Petry's Cultural Radicalism." Rev. of Revising the Blueprint: Ann Petry and the Literary Left. Alex Lubin (ed.). Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. CAAR: The Collegium for African American Research (June 2010). link
        "The Impact of McCarthyism on the African American Freedom Movement, Revisited." Rev. of Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement: 'Another Side of the Story?'. Robbie Lieberman and Clarence Lang (eds.). New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. Kult_Online 22 (2010). link

      Conference Reports

        with Ottilie P. Klein. "Conference Report on the 2011 Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies."KULT_Online 30 (2012). link
        with Franziska Bedorf. "Tagungsbericht: Zukunftsprojekt 'Westwall.' Wege zu einem verantwortungsbewussten Umgang mit den Überresten der NS-Anlage, Bonn, 03.-04.05.2007." Siedlungsforschung. Archäologie - Geschichte - Geographie 24 (2006): 379-389.
       
       

      Lectures and Conference Papers

        Un-American Black Bodies in Battle: W.E.B. Du Bois and C.L.R. James. Bodies - Systems - Structures: Masculinities in the UK and the US, 1945 to the Present. 13.-15.06.2012. Technische Universität Dresden.
        Doing 20th/21st Century Black Masculinities: From the 'New Negro' to Barack Obama. Lecture Series: Doing and Undoing Gender. January 17, 2012. Department of English, Research Project "Integrating Women's and Gender Studies", Justus-Liebig-Unversität, Giessen.
        Re-Writing Un-Americanism: African American Intellectuals, Life Writing and Resistance to McCarthyism. INPUTS: Institut für Postkoloniale & Transkulturelle Studien. November 24, 2011. Universität Bremen.
        Un-American Lives, Un-American Pamphlets: The National Committee to Defend Negro Leadership, Anti McCarthy-Propaganda and African American Life Writing. Un-Americans and the Un-American: From 1776 to 9/11. September 22-24, 2011. Centre for American Studies, University of Leicester, England.
        'What Would Tom Cruise do?' Deconstructing U.S. Post-Cold War Hegemonic Masculinity in the 'Pick Up Artist Movement' and Neil Strauss' The Game. HERMES 2011: Fear and Fantasy in a Global World. June 12-18, 2011. Cascais, Portugal.
        'The Story of a Birthday?': W.E.B. Du Bois' In Battle for Peace and African American Life Writing as Resistance to McCarthyism. PGF: Postgraduiertenforum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA) 2010. November 5-7, 2010. Universität Leipzig.
        'Old' vs. 'New Negro': The Harlem Renaissance as a Key Topic in American Studies. Kulturwissenschaftliche Doktorandenringvorlesung: Key Topics in English and American Studies. June 16, 2010. International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus-Liebig-Unversität, Giessen. link
        The 'Black' and the 'Red': African American Responses to McCarthyism. Provincializing the United States: Colonialism, Decolonization, and Post-Colonialism. Graduate Workshop: 20th Century History, Chair: Prof. Dr. Ursula Lehmkuhl. 33rd Annual Conference of the Historians in the German Association for American Studies (DGfA). February 12-14, 2010. Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Leucorea Foundation.
       
       

      Teaching

        Sommersemester 2011. Proseminar. Department of English, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen: Re-Reading the "New Negro": A Cultural and Literary History of the Harlem Renaissance.