Johanna Schuster-Craig
schust66@msu.edu
(517) 355-4760
B261 Wells Hall
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
FacultyLinguistics, Languages, and CulturesGlobal Studies in Arts and Humanities
Assistant Professor
German; Global Studies in Arts and Humanities
Biography
Ph.D., German and Feminist Studies, Duke University
B.A., Theater Arts, University of Michigan
Johanna Schuster-Craig’s research focuses on integration politics in Germany, both from the top-down (government policies and programs) and the bottom-up (social work projects and artist responses). Main topical areas of research include race/racism/whiteness in Germany after 1989, ethnographic fieldwork methods, and the far-right (PEGIDA/AfD) responses to marginalized groups.
Courses
GSAH 311: Narratives of Migration
GRM 302: Nature
GRM 491: German Drama
This course writes and produces short German scenes.
GRM 491: Immigration History
Advanced work with archival materials.
GRM 863 or 864
Nationalism, Integration Politics and the History of Immigration to Germany
Publications
Books
Forthcoming Monograph: How One Word Shapes a Nation: Integration Politics in Germany
Articles
“Did You Know Facebook Has Sixty Genders? Trans*Humiliation as a Performative Politics of Right-Wing Women.” Feminist German Studies 37:1 (2021). 138-162.
“Mass-Market Paperbacks and Integration Politics.” German Politics and Society 39:2 (2021). 22-46.
Forum Comment: “Asian German Studies, Muslim German Studies, and Critical Whiteness Studies,” German Quarterly 93:1 (2020). 123-127.
“Integration Politics as an Apparatus.” German Studies Review. 40:3 (2017). 607-627.
“Viewing Feminist Autobiography through a Spatial Lens: A Comparative Approach to Seyran Ateş’ Große Reise ins Feuer.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. 35:1 (2016). 201-227.
“‘Well-integrated Muslims’ and Adolescent Anti-Violence Activism in Berlin.” German Life and Letters. 68:1 (2015). 125-144.
Book Chapters
“Resisting Integration: Neukölln Artist Responses to Integration Politics,”Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin. Ed. Karin Bauer and Jennifer Hosek. (Berlin: Berghahn Books, 2018), 228-252.
“Criminalizing Honor: Seyran Ateş and Thea Dorn tackle Tatort.”Gewissheit und Zweifel: Interkulturelle Studien zum kriminalliterarischen Erzählen. Ed. Sandra Beck and Katrin Schneider-Özbek. (Bielefeld: Aisthesis-Verlag, 2015), 167-186.
Blog Posts and Public Scholarship:
“Why We Need a German Teaching Collaboratory.” The German Studies Collaboratory: An Interdisciplinary Experiment To Transform German Studies. Zeitnah blog.
“Like: Memetic Analogies on Social Media.” Together with Johannes von Moltke. Geschichte der Gegenwart (History of the Present: Swiss blog for new public-facing research in the humanities and social sciences.)
Feeding the Elephant: Working with a Developmental Editor. The H-Net Book Channel.
VOA News, International Edition with Host Steve Miller. Comment on 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall. Recorded November 1, 2019. Broadcast November 3 and again November 4, 2019.
C. Frost, J. Anand, S. Borrmann, and J. Schuster-Craig. “Integration or Inclusion? Defining Terms in the Context of Refugee Resettlement and Right-Wing Populism.” Social Dialogue: Free Magazine of The International Association of Schools of Social Work. Issue 17. 9/2017. 15-17.
“Is the world ready for a strong German leader?” TheConversation.com. July 10, 2017. Reprinted by Newsweek and other outlets.
“How the Berlin Christmas market terror attack affects Chancellor Merkel and Europe.” TheConversation.com. January 3, 2017. Reprinted by Newsweek and other outlets.
“Will Trump victory make Angela Merkel leader of the free world?” TheConversation.com. December 8, 2016. Reprinted by other outlets.
“Dura batalla electoral.” El Razon (Spain). Print Interview. December 7, 2016.
BBC Radio 5, “Up All Night with Rod Sharp.” Live interview about arrest of refugees as terror suspects in Germany. September 13, 2016.
“German responses to terror range from cautious to conspiratorial.” TheConversation.com. July 29, 2016. Reprinted by multiple news outlets.
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