About Nicole Coleman

Hi everyone, I am Associate Professor of German at Wayne State University. My work focuses on contemporary German literature, the intersection of human rights and literature, and intercultural approaches to literature. I write about minoritized and racialized people within Germany and about patterns of exclusion in German society. My second research area is in pedagogy, second language acquisition, social justice pedagogy, intercultural competence, and alternative assessment. All of this comes together in a common thread of thinking about justice and inclusive communities, both in the literary sphere and in our classrooms.
Nicole Coleman is Associate Professor of German at Wayne State University.

NBN Episodes hosted by Nicole:

Sara Pugach, "African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975" (U Michigan Press, 2022)

February 17, 2023

African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975

Sara Pugach
Hosted by Nicole Coleman

Sara Pugach's African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975 (U Michigan Press, 2022) explores the largely unexamined history of Africans who lived, stud…

Sara Jones, "Towards a Collaborative Memory: German Memory Work in a Transnational Context" (Berghahn Books, 2022)

November 4, 2022

Towards a Collaborative Memory

Sara Jones
Hosted by Nicole Coleman

Focusing on the memory of the German Democratic Republic, Towards a Collaborative Memory: German Memory Work in a Transnational Context (Berghahn Book…

Ela Gezen et al., "Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990" (Berghahn Books, 2022)

October 21, 2022

Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990

Ela Gezen, Priscilla Layne, and Jonathan Skolnik
Hosted by Nicole Coleman

While German unification promised a new historical beginning, it also stirred discussions about contemporary Germany's Nazi past and ideas of citizens…

Anna von Rath, "Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin" (Peter Lang, 2022)

May 4, 2022

Afropolitan Encounters

Anna von Rath
Hosted by Nicole Coleman

Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin (Peter Lang, 2022), the first book in the new series “Imagining Black Europe,” ex…

Marie Muschalek, "Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa" (Cornell UP, 2019)

March 31, 2022

Violence as Usual

Marie Muschalek
Hosted by Nicole Coleman

Slaps in the face, kicks, beatings, and other forms of run-of-the-mill violence were a quotidian part of life in German Southwest Africa at the beginn…