University of Colorado

Faculty Member, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Assistant Professor of German

About

Beverly Weber's research and teaching interests include the intersections of race, gender, and migration in Germany and Europe; contemporary German literature and culture; Turkish-German culture; immigrant culture; and Islam in Europe. Her interdisciplinary work is informed by cultural studies frameworks and theories of globalization, and incorporates analysis of popular media, literature, and film.

Her publications include articles on Germany's headscarf debates, the literature of Emine Sevgi Özdamar, representations of Muslim women in Germany, and the work of Christa Wolf. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Rethinking Violence: Islam, Germany, and the New Europe.

She received a PhD in Comparative Literature and a graduate certificate in Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; MA degrees in Comparative Literature and German from the Pennsylvania State University; and a BA with majors in English and German from Gustavus Adolphus College.

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