Frank Mehring, professor of American Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen. He teaches 20th and 21st century visual culture, theories of popular culture, transnational modernism, and processes of cultural translation in a transatlantic context. In 2012, he received the biennial EAAS Rob Kroes Award for his monograph "The Democratic Gap" as the best book manuscript in Europe in American Studies (Winter: 2013). Professor Mehring is the author of Sphere Melodies, published in 2003, which examines the intermediary work of the avant-garde artists Charles Ives and John Cage. In 2004, he also published a biography on the German-American freedom fighter Charles Follen (2004) and edited his writings (Between Nativists and Foreigners, appearing in 2007). He has recently finished his post-doctoral project, The Democratic Gap, exploring dissent of German Immigrants in pursuit of the promise of American democracy at the John F. Kennedy-Institute/Freie Universitaet Berlin. With Winfried Fluck and Stefan L. Brandt he edited Transcultural Spaces: Challenges of Urbanity, Ecology, and the Environment in the New Millennium, which appeared in 2010. In addition to organizing the first international symposium on the painter/designer Winold Reiss (Dec. 1-3, 2011), he is preparing a critical edition of Reiss's Mexico diary entitled Detours to Harlem. Frank Mehring was awarded a Fulbright American Studies Fellowship to the Department of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University (2004-5). In 2008 and 2009, he was a fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

 

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Radboud University
English Department
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Email: f.mehring@let.ru.nl

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