Berndt Ostendorf
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Berndt Ostendorf born in 1940, married, two sons, is professor of North American Cultural History at the Amerika Institut, LMU. Already taught in the VIU Undergraduate Program of Spring 2001.
He has authored or edited:
Black Literature in White America, 1983;
Ghettoliteratur: Zur Literatur ethnischer, marginaler und unterdrückter Gruppen in Amerika, 1982;
Die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika 2 Vol. 2nd ed., 1992;
Die multikulturelle Gesellschaft: Modell Amerika? 1994;
Creolization and Creoles: The Concepts and their History, 1997;
and, with Ulla Haselstein, Cultural Interactions. Fifty Years of American Studies in Germany, 2005.
Current work is on:
"Conspiracy Nation: conspiracy theories and evangelical fundamentalism: Marion G. (Pat) Robertson’s New World Order";
"Blowing up the White House. American National Identity in the Age of Globalization";
“Why is American Popular Culture so Popular?";
“Subversive Reeducation? Jazz as a liberating force in Germany and Europe”;
"Americanization and Anti-Americanism in the Age of Globalization“;
“A Nation with the Soul of a Church? The Strange Career of Religion in American Politics: A View from Europe”;
“Samuel Huntington and the Mexican Threat to the American Dream;”
“World Heritage New Orleans: Ten Reasons for Saving the City.”
