Courtney Moffet-Bateau
Visiting Researcher
Contact
Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics
4980 Margaret Morrison St
Posner Hall 341
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics
4980 Margaret Morrison St
Posner Hall 341
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Education
B.A., Pitzer CollegeM.A., Westfälische Wilhelms University of Münster, Münster, Germany
Ph.D., University of Bremen, Germany
Bio
Courtney Moffett-Bateau is currently a visiting researcher at 麻豆村 in the Department of Languages, Cultures, & Applied Linguistics. She has lectured at Wayne State University, the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Duisburg-Essen. Dr. Moffet-Bateau's main research and teaching interests are in transatlantic comparative Black Feminist and African Diaspora Studies in Europe, the U.S. and the Caribbean. She is a native English speaker and fluent in German. Her book Disappearing Blackness: Black Creative Writing in the Age of the Program Era is in progress.
Awards & Honors
- Doctoral scholarship “Begabtenförderung für ausländische Studierende” (Excellence Fellowship for International Students), funded by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (2016-22)
- Recipient of the 2015 Award for Innovative University Teaching (“Preis für hochschuldidaktische Innovationen in der Lehrpraxis,” University of Duisburg-Essen) for the project “Now You See It, Now You Don't: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Race in a 'Postracial' America” together with Dietmar Meinel
- Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, Oberhausen, Germany (2008-09)
- Urban Fellow, Center for California Cultural & Social Issues, La Verne, CA (2007)
Selected Publications
Moffett-Bateau, Courtney. “Categorical Displacement: The White European-American Cultural War on Black Thought.” Special Issue “The University as a Theater of Culture Wars: Then and Now” in Minnesota Review. Ed. Florian Zappe. Durham: Duke UP (forthcoming spring 2024)
Moffett-Bateau, Courtney, and Sebastian Weier. “Post-Racism, Colorblind Individualism & Political Correctness: Contemporary Modes of Materialization in American Studies and German Academia.” Who Can Speak and Who Is Heard/Hurt? – Facing Problems of ’Race,’ Racism and Ethnic Diversity in American Studies in Germany and Beyond. Ed. Katharina Motyl, Mahmoud Arghavan, Nicole Hirschfelder, Luvena Kopp. Bielefeld: transcript, 2019
Moffett-Bateau, Courtney. “American Consensus and the Imaginative Power of Fiction” Special Issue What Can Be Done?” Critical Ethnic Studies. Ed. Ashon Crawley, with co-editors Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
Meinel, Dietmar and Moffett-Bateau, Courtney. “Now We Teach It, Now We Learn: Potentials and Pitfalls of a Research-Oriented Seminar.” Neu gedacht und neu gemacht: Lehrideen aus der Universität Duisburg-Essen. Ed. Zentrum für Hochschulbildung. Duisburg and Essen: University of Duisburg-Essen, 2015. 70-74
Moffett-Bateau, Courtney. “Conference Report: Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe / Culturas e Identidades Negras en Europa / Cultures et Identités Noires en Europe (Münster, 16-19 September 2015)”. Acolit: Bulletin of of GAPS – Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien. 29-31.
Moffett-Bateau, Courtney, and Sebastian Weier. “Post-Racism, Colorblind Individualism & Political Correctness: Contemporary Modes of Materialization in American Studies and German Academia.” Who Can Speak and Who Is Heard/Hurt? – Facing Problems of ’Race,’ Racism and Ethnic Diversity in American Studies in Germany and Beyond. Ed. Katharina Motyl, Mahmoud Arghavan, Nicole Hirschfelder, Luvena Kopp. Bielefeld: transcript, 2019
Moffett-Bateau, Courtney. “American Consensus and the Imaginative Power of Fiction” Special Issue What Can Be Done?” Critical Ethnic Studies. Ed. Ashon Crawley, with co-editors Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
Meinel, Dietmar and Moffett-Bateau, Courtney. “Now We Teach It, Now We Learn: Potentials and Pitfalls of a Research-Oriented Seminar.” Neu gedacht und neu gemacht: Lehrideen aus der Universität Duisburg-Essen. Ed. Zentrum für Hochschulbildung. Duisburg and Essen: University of Duisburg-Essen, 2015. 70-74
Moffett-Bateau, Courtney. “Conference Report: Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe / Culturas e Identidades Negras en Europa / Cultures et Identités Noires en Europe (Münster, 16-19 September 2015)”. Acolit: Bulletin of of GAPS – Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien. 29-31.