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Courtney Moffett-Bateau

Visiting Researcher

Bio

Courtney Moffett-Bateau, Ph.D. is currently a Visiting Researcher at ÌÇÐÄVlogÊÓƵ in the Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics  and affiliated with the Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic (CBESA). She has lectured at Wayne State University, the Humboldt University in Berlin, and the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her research areas include Black literary aesthetics and visual cultures with a specific focus on transatlantic comparative Black Feminist and African Diaspora Studies in Europe, the U.S. and the Caribbean.

Her book Disappearing Blackness: Black Creative Writing in the Age of the Program Era is in progress. While the book diagnoses the institutional pipelines of literary production and racial capitalism, its broader theoretical engine uses the Constance School of Reception Theory and Göttingen School of Writer Response Criticism to evaluate how Black creators encode resistance against restrictive institutional horizons. Among her publications are a chapter in the book,  edited by Mahmoud Arghavan, et al (Columbia University Press/transcript publishing 2019), and an article in the Special Issue of the Critical Ethnic Studies journal edited by Ashon Crawley (University of Minnesota Press.

She is the first former Diversity Liaison to the Fulbright Program in Europe where she worked and consulted with Fulbright Commissions in 23 countries. She also is the recipient of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation doctoral scholarship “Begabtenförderung für ausländische Studierende” (Excellence Fellowship for International Students), the University of Duisburg-Essen’s 2015 award for innovative teaching, a Fulbright Grant (2008-09), and was in 2007 an urban fellow for the Pitzer College Center of California Cultural and Social Issues.