Frank Mehring. “Transnational Silhouettes...”:

Frank Mehring is professor of Am. Lit. at Raboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He teaches 20th-century visual culture, theories of popular culture, ethnic modernism, and processes of cultural translation in transatlantic contexts. He is the author of Sphere Melodies, published in 2003. In 2004, he also published a biography on the German-American freedom fighter Charles Follen (2004) and edited his writings (Between Nativists and Foreigners, appearing in 2007). With Winfried Fluck and Stefan L. Brandt he edited Transcultural Spaces: Challenges of Urbanity, Ecology, and the Environment in the New Millennium, which appeared in 2010. He was awarded a DAAD stipend at the music department of Harvard University (1997) and a Fulbright Am. Studies Fellowship to the Dep. of English and Am. Lit. and Language at Harvard University (2004). In 2008 and 2009, he was a fellow at the Smithsonian Am. Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. In 2011, he organized and moderated the first intern. symposium on the German-American artist Winold Reiss at the Freie Universität Berlin.