Axelle Germanaz, M.A.

My research examines the use of environmental rhetoric, imagery, and themes in contemporary US far-right politics and culture. I am also interested in environmental and energy humanities, theories of race and racism, ideology, popular culture, and affect studies and sentimentality.

Short CV

• Since 2018: Member of Academic Staff, FAU

• PhD Project: “Inside the Environmental Imaginaries and Cultural Spaces of the US Far Right”

• M.A. in North American Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

• B.A. in Foreign and Regional Languages, Literatures and Civilizations, Université de La Réunion

Publications

• Germanaz, A.: “Hiroshima mon amour.” Heike Paul et al. (eds.): Lexicon of Global Melodrama. Bielefeld: Transcript (forthcoming, 2022).

• Germanaz, A.: “’Back to the Fatherland’: The Transatlantic White Power Music Scene and the Performance of a Politics of Purity” Noam Zadoff et al. (eds.): Four Years After: Ethnonationalism, Antisemitism, and Racism in Trump’s America. Heidelberg: Winter, 2020, 163-181.

• Germanaz, A.: “Singing for a White ‘City upon a Hill’: White Power Music and the Myth of Regeneration Through Violence.” COPAS: Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2019. Web.

Courses

  • Aufbauseminar Culture (AS)
  • Grundseminar Culture (GS)
  • Borders and Borderlands in the American Imagination (PS)
  • Populism in the United States (PS)
  • White Supremacy and American Popular Culture (PS)