Campus Weeks 2024 | 60 Years of JazzFest Berlin

Jonathan Wiplinger

Jonathan Wipplinger was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and received his undergraduate degrees in German and History from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (1999). He has traveled extensively in Germany and studied at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet in Freiburg im Breisgau. He received my Ph.D. in German from the University of Michigan in 2006. Before joining the faculty of North Carolina State University in 2008, he was a visiting assistant professor in German at the College of the Holy Cross.

His interests include 20th century German culture and literature, business, media, and popular music.

Priscilla Layne

Priscilla Layne is Director of UNC’s Center for European Studies and Professor of German and Adjunct Associate Professor of African Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and President of the American Association of Teachers of German. Her book, White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture, was published in 2018 by the University of Michigan Press. She has also published essays on Turkish German culture, translation, punk and film. She recently translated Olivia Wenzel’s debut novel, 1000 Serpentinen Angst, which will be out in June. And she is currently finishing a manuscript on Afro German Afrofuturism and a critical guide to Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun.

Andrea Bohlman

Andrea Bohlman studies the political stakes of music making and sound in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In her work on the cultural history of music, migration and war, sound and media studies, and social movements she is interested in the methodological challenges posed by the study of the recent past and committed to weaving together archival work and ethnomusicological methods. She is deeply invested in exploring the diverse music that permeate musical cultures past and present, whether these are popular, sacred, art, or experimental. Bohlman holds a B.A. from Stanford University, and an MMus from Royal Holloway, University of London. She earned her doctorate at Harvard University in 2012 after which she spent a year as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Musicological Society (AMS50), and a Fulbright-Hays fellowship. She was honored to be a 2020 recipient of UNC’s Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement.

Adi Nester

Adi Nester received her Ph.D. in German Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder and holds additional degrees in Musicology and Piano Performance from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the University of Southern California. She joined the department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at UNC in fall 2020. Adi’s research focuses on German-Jewish Studies and the intersection of literature, music, theology, and politics in the cultures and traditions of German-speaking countries.