Dr. des. Eva Bischoff
Dr. Eva Bischoff now works at the University of Trier. Up-to date information can be found here.
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Eva Bischoff studied Modern & Contemporary History, American Cultural History, Political Science, Philosophy, and Homo- en Lesbo Studies at the Universities of Cologne, Amsterdam, Hamburg, and the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich where she was a doctoral fellow at the DFG graduate school (Graduiertenkolleg) „Postcolonial Studies“. She holds a M.A. from the University of Cologne and a PhD in Modern & Contemporary History from the LMU Munich. Before coming to Münster she taught British and American History at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn.
In her PhD thesis “'Ich bin doch kein Kannibale': Alterität und Männlichkeit zwischen 1890 und 1933“ she reconstructed the influences of racist and colonial discourses of the cannibal on the articulation of white, heterosexual, bourgeois German masculinity. Her research (and teaching) interests include postcolonial theory; British, German, and US-American colonial & imperial history, history of criminology & psychiatry, gender & queer studies. She is a member of the DFG research network „Körper in den Kulturwissenschaften“.
Publications include
Essays
Reviews
Conference reports and other short publications
Conference papers
Essays
“Jack, Peter, and the Beast: Postcolonial Perspectives on Sexual Murder and the Construction of White Masculinity in Britain and Germany at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Cultures – Nervous States. Insecurity & Anxiety in Britain and Germany in a (Post)Colonial World. Ed. Ulrike Lindner/ Mark Stein/ Silke Stroh. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009 (forthcoming).
“Suspecting perversion: The trial against Karl Hussmann in 1928 and the performativity of criminality in Weimar Germany.” (with Daniel Siemens) Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany. Ed. Richard Wetzell. New York: Berghahn (forthcoming).
“The Cannibal Within: White Men and the Embodiment of Evolutionary Time.” Deleuze and History. Ed. Jeffrey A. Bell/ Claire Colebrook. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. 121-141.
“Becoming Cannibal.” Deleuzian Events. Ed. Hanjo Berrensem/ Leyla Haferkamp. Münster: Lit, 2009. 235-251. (reprint in the issues, forthcoming).
“’Between Animal Instinct and Morality’: The Construction of White Masculinity in Medicopsychiatric Discourse in Weimar Germany.” Historicising Whiteness. Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity. Ed. Katherine Ellinghaus/ Leigh Boucher. Melbourne: Rmit Press, 2007. 427-435.
“Meet/eat Your Neighbours: Dangerous Encounters in Weimar Germany. Perspectives on Endangerment. Ed. Graham Huggan/ Stephan Klasen. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2005. 97-107.
Reviews
Weiße Weiblichkeiten. Konstruktionen von ’Rasse’ und Geschlecht im deutschen Kolonialismus, Anette Dietrich (Bielefeld: transcript 2007). In: Querelles-Net. Rezensionszeitschrift für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung No.26, November 2008, http://www.querelles-net.de/2008-26/text26bischoff_dietrich.shtml.
Women in World History - Teaching Forums (CHNM). http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/ forum.php. In: H-Soz-Kult http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/ id=115&type=rezwww.
Lesbian Empire. Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties, Gay Wachman (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 2001). In: Querelles-Net. Rezensionszeitschrift für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung No.8, November 2002, http://www.querelles-net.de/2002-8/text06.html.
Nation, Politik und Geschlecht. Frauenbewegungen und Nationalismus in der Moderne. Geschichte und Geschlechter Vol. 31, ed. Ute Planert (Frankfurt a.M.: Campus 2000). In: Beiträge zur Feministischen Theorie & Praxis 59 (2001), 146-148.
Conference reports and other short publications
Conference report: “Tiere im Film, eine Menschheitsgeschichte. 07.07.2006-09.07.2006, Köln,” H-Soz-u-Kult, 04.08.2006, http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=1277.
Conference papers
“From Wallflower to Diva? Translocations of Postcolonial Studies in German Studies” GNEL/ASNEL Conference, University of Münster (May 2009).
“Anders über das Andere nachdenken: Alterität und nomadisches Subjekt” Internationale Lecture Series: Diversity: Wissen – Transfer – Differenz (John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin (November 2008).
“Jack, Peter and the Beast: White male identity and its cannibal other” Conference: Hybrid Cultures – Nervous States. Insecurity & Anxiety in Britain and Germany in a (Post)Colonial World, University of Münster (May 2007).
“‘Between Animal Instinct and Morality’: The Construction of White Masculinity in Medicopsychiatric Discourse in Weimar Germany” Conference: Historicising Whiteness, University of Melbourne (November 2006).
“Becoming Cannibal”, Conference: deleuzian events – writing|history, University of Cologne (July 2005).
“Postcolonial Studies and (German) Historiography of Globalisation” Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute in German Studies: Germany in the Age of Globalization, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (August 2004).
“Anachronistische Körper: Zur Konstruktion weisser, bürgerlicher Männlichkeit im medizinisch-kriminologischen Diskurs um 1900” Conference: Hegemoniale Männlichkeiten, Stuttgart-Hohenheim (June 2004).
“Meet/eat your Neighbours: Dangerous Encounters in Weimar Germany” Conference: Perspectives on Endangerment, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (November 2003).