Dustin Breitenwischer is Junior Professor of American Literature and Culture at Universität Hamburg. He received his doctorate in North American Studies from Freie Universität Berlin, and studied, taught and conducted research at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freie Universität Berlin, University of Minnesota, and Columbia University. Dustin is principal investigator of the DFG-funded research network “Kulturen ästhetischen Widerstands/Cultures of Aesthetic Resistance.” His research interests include aesthetics and theories of creativity, philosophical and literary hermeneutics, Hip Hop culture, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. American art and literature. He is the author of Dazwischen: Spielräume ästhetischer Erfahrung in der US-amerikanischen Kunst und Literatur (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2018) and Die Geschichte des Hip-Hop. 111 Alben (Reclam, 2021), and he is co-editor of the themed issues “How to Read the Literary Market” (ZAA, 2021) and “Archives of Resistance: Picturing the Black Americas” (Amerikastudien/American Studies, forthcoming), amongst others. In his current research project, “The Creativity of Reform,” Dustin explores Frederick Douglass’s autobiographical and philosophical imagination.
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