Beverly Weber‘s research and teaching interests include the intersections of race, gender, and migration in Germany and Europe; comparative studies of racialization; contemporary visual cultures; contemporary German literature and culture; and Islam in Europe. Her interdisciplinary work is informed by feminist cultural studies frameworks, with a current focus on critical race frameworks as well as theories of precarity, care and intimacy. Her first book, Violence and Gender in the “New” Europe: Islam in German Culture , examines racist and Islamophobic responses to gender violence in German politics and news media, as well as Muslim women’s challenges to gender violence and racism. Her co-authored book (with Maria Stehle) entitled Precarious Intimacies: The Politics of Touch in Contemporary European Cinema, explores intimate friendships and relationships in films about those living extremely precarious lives – particularly refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants. She has published widely on racism, gender, Islam, and refugee migration in contemporary Germany, as well as on racism and whiteness in academia.
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refugees in Germany, feminisms, race gender and migration in Germany and Europe, comparative racializations, contemporary German literature and culture, Turkish-German culture, immigrant culture, Islam in Europe, theories of intersectionality, critical food studies
