Ruth Mayer
I hold the chair of American Studies at the Leibniz University of Hannover, teaching American literature and culture from the 17th Century to the present time with a strong focus on theoretical and formal questions. My research focuses on aspects of popular culture, globalization, science studies, and cultural contact. I have been involved in several third-party-funded research projects over the last years. From 2006 to 2010, I directed "Diasporic Self-fashionings: The USA and China" (DFG, 2006-2010), which produced international conferences, essays, and two edited volumes, Trans-Pacific Interactions (2009) and Chinatowns in a Transnational World (2011). Since 2010, I have been part of the research unit "Aesthetics and Practice of Popular Seriality" (Berlin, Hannover, Göttingen), first with the project "Serial Figures and Media Change“ (2010-2013) and currently directing a project investigating the intersections of mass culture and film serials from the 1910s to 1940s. My most recent book publication is Serial Fu Manchu: The Chinese Supervillain and the Spread of Yellow Peril Ideology, which appeared in 2013 with Temple University Press.
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In diesem Band soll der Begriff in seinen unterschiedlichen Dimensionen und in seiner Bedeutung für die aktuelle kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Debatte vorgestellt und diskutiert werden.
The book discloses the important European backdrop to a phenomenon commonly associated with North America. Also, its objective is to introduce the work of well-established European scholars in the field, some of whom have published important studies in languages other than English, to an English-speaking audience. Most of the contributors to the volume have multidisciplinary and multilingual backgrounds and are familiar with several different instances of the Chinese diasporic experience. As a consequence, our volume consists of numerous contributions which proceed comparatively, interrelating different locations or breaching timeframes and thus disclosing the numerous analogies, but also the fascinating differences which characterize the myths and realities of Chinatowns in Europe and the United States. With its triangular approach to the developments between China and the urban Chinese diasporas of North America and Europe, the volume discloses connections and interlinkages which have not been addressed before.
Papers by Ruth Mayer
In diesem Band soll der Begriff in seinen unterschiedlichen Dimensionen und in seiner Bedeutung für die aktuelle kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Debatte vorgestellt und diskutiert werden.
The book discloses the important European backdrop to a phenomenon commonly associated with North America. Also, its objective is to introduce the work of well-established European scholars in the field, some of whom have published important studies in languages other than English, to an English-speaking audience. Most of the contributors to the volume have multidisciplinary and multilingual backgrounds and are familiar with several different instances of the Chinese diasporic experience. As a consequence, our volume consists of numerous contributions which proceed comparatively, interrelating different locations or breaching timeframes and thus disclosing the numerous analogies, but also the fascinating differences which characterize the myths and realities of Chinatowns in Europe and the United States. With its triangular approach to the developments between China and the urban Chinese diasporas of North America and Europe, the volume discloses connections and interlinkages which have not been addressed before.