Contact Information
Office:
Peters 221
(440) 775-5130
Personal Office Hours:
Monday
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
And by appointment.
German Faculty-in-Residence,
Sabine Marina Jones
Educational Background
- “Vordiplom” (Translation), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, FASK Germersheim, Germany, 1998
- M.A. (Translation), Kent State University, 2001
- M.A. (Germanic Languages), The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005
- ABD (Modern European and Women’s and Gender History, African Diaspora), The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ph.D. expected in 2013
Areas of Special Interest:
20th-Century German Literature, African Diaspora Studies (particularly Afro-German Studies), Migrant Literature, Modern European and Women’s and Gender History, Entertainment History, Foreign Languages
Marina Jones is currently completing her dissertation titled “’Outsiders Within': Afro-Germans in West Germany—Discourses, Perceptions, and Experiences, 1949–1989." Her dissertation project analyzes the West German discourses of Afro-Germans in print media and the Afro-German experiences and perceptions of these discourses between 1949 and 1989. She has taught German, history and global studies classes at UNC-Chapel Hill and has teaching and tutoring experience in German, French, Spanish, and English.
Contact Information: marina.jones@oberlin.edu
