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Hana Vrdoljak, M.A.

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Hana Vrdoljak, M.A.

Hana Vrdoljak, M.A.

Hana Vrdoljak, M.A.
Hana Vrdoljak, M.A.

Graduiertenkollegs
Graduiertenkolleg 2726 Das Sentimentale in Literatur, Kultur und Politik

Room: Room A502
Bismarckstr. 1
91054 Erlangen
  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-23492
  • Email: hana.vrdoljak@fau.de

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Research Interests

Hip Hop Studies
Sentimentality, Affect, and Public Feeling
Interamerican Studies
Gender Studies and Feminist Theory
African American Culture and Literature
Latinx Culture and Literature
Working-Class Culture and Literature

Current Research Projects

Hip Hop Sentimentality (Dissertation Project)

Education

M.A. in Interamerican Studies (The Americas/Las Américas), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (2022)
B.A. in English and American Studies and French Philology, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (2019)

Employment

Since 2022: Doctoral researcher in Graduiertenkolleg “The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, and Politics” at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

Fellowships and Grants

  • 2023: Travel Grant from the Women’s Representatives of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology at FAU
  • 2023: Post-Graduate Scholarship (Research Travel Grant) of the Bavarian American Academy
  • 2023: 12th International Summer Academy of the Bavarian American Academy in Lexington, Kentucky, June 5-13, 2023

Publications

Book Contributions

  • Vrdoljak, Hana. ""My Palm and My Trigger Finger Itch, Bitch": Gangsterism and Female Hustling in Contemporary Hip Hop Culture." Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture. Ed. Teresa Hiergeist, Stefanie Schäfer, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2024. 141-162.
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Talks

  • “’So Many Tears’: The Sentimental Self and Constructions of Black (Hyper-)Masculinity in Hip Hop Culture.” DGfA/GAAS Annual Meeting 2024: “American Soundscapes”, Oldenburg, May 25, 2024.
  • “‘Te Saco Lo’ Papeles’: Afro-Dominican Immigrant Narratives In Contemporary Hip Hop Culture.” EAAS Conference 2024: “1924-2024: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited”, Munich, April 4, 2024.
  • “’Tears Dropping from the Barbed Wire’: Hip Hop Sentimentality and Prison Abolitionism.” International Symposium: Sentimental Ballads in Popular Music, Siegen, Sept. 13, 2023.
  • “‘All of Us Worried, All of Us Buried, in Our Feelings Deep’: (Counter-)Narratives of the State and Hip Hop Sentimentality.” BAA Summer Academy: Cultural Narratives of the State in a Comparative Perspective, Lexington, Kentucky, June 6, 2023.
  • “‘Girls in the Hood’: Black Feminist Thought in Contemporary Hip Hop Culture.” BAA Student Conference: Structural Racism in the U.S., July 24, 2021 (online).
  • “‘I’d Rather Die than Be Trapped in a Living Hell’: The Imprisoned Self, Police Brutality, and Prison Criticism in 2Pac’s Trapped.” BAA Workshop: Critical Prison Studies, Nürnberg, Sept. 22, 2018.

Memberships

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA)
International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS)
Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS)

Teaching

  • PS/MS “Hip Hop Culture” (SS 23)
  • Tutor for “Basismodul The Americas/Las Américas” (WS 20/21, WS 21/22)

Community Involvement

  • Workshops for high school students on “Black Activism in Rap Music” and “New York City in Rap Lyrics” (via the German-American Institute Nürnberg)
  • Film talks at Casablanca cinema Nürnberg
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