Prof. Dr. phil. Kerstin Knopf
Professor for North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies
Prof. Dr. phil. Kerstin Knopf
Büro: GW 2, A 3.670
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Sprechzeiten: Mittwochs, 15-16 Uhr. Bitte mit Voranmeldung | Wednesday 15-16 hours. Pls register via email.
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Recent Events
- INPUTS Lecture Series „Bremer Denkanstösse“: Lewis Gordon (U Conn, Storrs, USA) “Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge”, 19 June 2023.
- INPUTS Writer-in-Residence: Marie-Celie Agnant, Canada, Summer Semester 2023
- INPUTS Artist-in-Residence: Ricaredo Silebu Boturu, Equatorial Guinea, Summer Semester 2023
- Kerstin Knopf held the Bremen Guelph Lecture at U Guelph in October 2022 https://www.iccs-ciec.ca/academic-events/
- Past President ICCS Kerstin Knopf co-investigator in new SSHRC-funded project to enhance scholarship and networks in Canadian Studies https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2022/07/06/new-sshrc-funded-project-to-enhance-scholarships-and-networks-in-canadian-studies/
- Interview mit Kerstin Knopf zu Alanis Obomsawin und aktueller Winnetoudebatte: 90. Geburtstag von Alanis Obomsawin
3. Sept. 2022 Radio Eins: Indigene Kultur - 90. Geburtstag von Alanis Obomsawin | radioeins - Interview mit Kerstin Knopf zum Papstbesuch in Kanada: „Kanada vom Kolonialismus bis heute"
25. Juli 2022 Vatikan News: https://www.vaticannews.va/de/welt/news/2022-07/papst-franziskus-reise-kanada-indigene-umwelt-interview.html - “On Epistemological Power Relations.” Contribution to “Relocating Critical Social Theory: Religion, Solidarity, Emancipation - Global Roundtable”
Olivet College, 17 May 2021: https://youtu.be/qVvxyEnTT_E
Participants: Dustin J. Byrd (Oliveet College, USA), Kerstin Knopf (U Bremen, Germany), Michael Naughton (U Bristol, UK), Syed Farid Alatas (National U Singapore), Mehdi Shariati (Kansas City Kansas Community College, USA), Masturah Alatas (Italy), Daniele Cantini (Martin Luther U, Germany), Seyed Javad Miri ( Institute of Humanities and Cultures Studies, Iran)
Werdegang ‒ Curriculum Vitae
1991-1997 | Study of American and Canadian Literatures and Cultures, Spanish and Scandinavian Philology at University of Greifswald, Germany and at California State University Pomona, Los Angeles (USA) (Dean's Honor List for Winter Quarter 1994), Göteborgs Universitet (Sweden), and First Nations University, Regina (Canada) |
1997 | Magistra Artium, Master Thesis: "Aboriginal Women and Film in Canada" |
1997-2003 | PhD Student at the University of Greifswald – with research at First Nations University, Regina (Canada) |
1998-2000 | Study of German as a Foreign Languageat the University of Greifswald |
2000-2001 | Assistant at Interdisciplinary Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Greifswald |
2001-2003 | Administrative Staff Member at International Office, University of Greifswald |
2003 | PhD / Doctor phil. – American and Canadian Studies, PhD Thesis: Decolonizing the Lens of Power: Indigenous Films in North America (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008) |
2003-2010 | Assistant Professor at the Institute for British and North American Studies, University of Greifswald – Guest Professor at Widener University Chester (PA, USA) and University of Iceland, Reykjavik; Research at University of Ottawa and University of Toronto (Canada) |
2011-2014 | Käthe-Kluth-Habilitationsstipendium (Post-Doc Scholarship) |
2011-2012 | Stand-In Professor for North American Literary and Cultural Studies (Prof. Gesa Mackenthun) at the University of Rostock |
2012 | Postdoctoral Qualification / Habilitation : "The Gothic Canadian Century: Unhomely Beginnings and the Female Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Literature"; Venia Legendi: Amerikanistik/Neue Englischsprachige Literaturen |
2013-2014 | Stand-In Professor for American Studies / Early American Studies (Prof. Oliver Scheiding) at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz |
2015-2019 | Full Professor for Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen |
Since 2019 | Full Professor for North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen |
Lehre
- American and Canadian Literature and Culture
- Indigenous Literatures, Film and Media worldwide
- Postcolonial Studies (Cultures, Theories, Literatures and Films)
- Pacific Literature
Research Interests
- American and Canadian Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Indigenous Literatures, Film and Media worldwide
- Postcolonial Studies (Cultures, Theories, Literatures and Films)
- Epistemological Power Relations and Postcolonial Knowledges
- German Colonialism in the Pacific
- American Prison Literature
- Women and Gender Studies
Academic Functions
2001 – 2005 | Board Member of Association for the Studies of New English Literatures (ASNEL) now Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) |
2003 – 2005 | Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Greifswald |
2008 – 2014 | Board Member of Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS) and Director of Section "Indigenous and Cultural Studies" |
Since 2015 | Director of the Institute for Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies (INPUTS) at the University of Bremen |
Since 2016 | Member of Advisory Board of the Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South (PSAGS) |
Since 2017 | Director of the Bremen Institute for Canada and Quebec Studies (BICQS) |
2017 – 2019 | President of Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS) |
2021 – 2023 | President International Council for Canadian Studies/Conseil international d'études canadiennes (ICCS/CIEC) |
2023 – 2024 | Past President International Council for Canadian Studies/Conseil international d'études canadiennes (ICCS/CIEC) |
Monograph:
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Knopf, Kerstin. Decolonizing the Lens of Power: Indigenous Films in North America. Cross/Cultures Series 100. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi Press, 2008, 494 pp.
Editions:
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Blackmore, Ernie, Kerstin Knopf, Wendy Pearson, and Corina Wieser-Cox, eds. Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film. London: Routledge (in preparation).
Knopf, Kerstin and Sukla Chatterjee, Joanna Chojnicka and Anna-Katharina Hornidge (eds.) Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Materialities. Heidelberg University Publishing, 2023. https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1046
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Knopf, Kerstin and René Dietrich, eds. Biopolitics – Geopolitics – Life: Settler States and Indigenous Presences in North America. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023. https://www.dukeupress.edu/biopolitics-geopolitics-life
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Febel, Gisela, Kerstin Knopf, Martin Nonhoff, eds. Contradiction Studies – Exploring the Field. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2023. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-37784-7
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Knopf, Kerstin, and Detlev Quintern, eds. From Marx to Global Marxism: Eurocentrism, Resistance, Postcolonial Criticism. Trier: WVT, 2020, 275 pp.
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Knopf, Kerstin, Ed. North America in the 21st Century: Tribal, Local, and Global. Festschrift für Hartmut Lutz. Trier: WVT, 2011, 362 pp.
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Knopf, Kerstin, Ed. Aboriginal Canada Revisited. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2008, 422 pp.
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Knopf, Kerstin, und Monika Schneikart, Hg. Sex/ismus und Medien. Herbolzheim: Centaurus Verlag, 2007, 242 pp.
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Knopf, Kerstin, Dörte Putensen und Monika Schneikart, Hg. Frauen im Ostseeraum: Gleicher Kulturraum, Unterschiedliche Traditionen, Gemeinsame Zukunft? Herbolzheim: Centaurus Verlag, 2003, 202 pp.
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Knopf, Kerstin, and Christiane Kollenberg, Eds. Rainbow Visions and Earth Ways: The Poetry of Carol Lee Sanchez / Regenbogenvisionen und Erdwege: Carol Lee Sanchez' Lyrik. OBEMA 16. Osnabrück: Universitätsverlag Rasch, 1998, 177 pp.
Hartmut Lutz mit Kerstin Knopf und Christiane Kollenberg. Achte Deines Bruders Traum! Gespräche mit nordamerikanischen IndianerInnen. 2nd Ed. Osnabrück: Druck- und Verlagskooperative, 1997, 226 pp.
Special Editions:
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Knopf, Kerstin, guest, ed. Postcolonial Knowledges. Special Edition of Postcolonial Interventions: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies. VI.1 (January 2021): 288 pp. https://postcolonialinterventions.com/
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Däwes, Birgit, and Kerstin Knopf, guest eds. Indigenous Knowledges in North America. Special Edition of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA). 68.2 (2020), 112 pp. https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/zaa/68/2/zaa.68.issue-2.xml
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Knopf, Kerstin, Ed. Special Edition of Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien: Indigenous Knowledges and Academic Discourses; Les savoirs autochtones et les discours scientifiques; Indigenes Wissen und Akademische Diskurse. 67.1 (2018), 199 pp.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals:
“The Role of International Canadian Studies for Knowledge Diplomacy.” Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien (ZKS). 42 (2022): 118-122. (http://www.kanada-studien.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ZKS_2022_Futures.pdf)
"Introduction: Postcolonial Knowledges." Special Edition of Postcolonial Interventions: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies. VI.1 (January 2021): 14-37. https://postcolonialinterventions.com/
Knopf, Kerstin, and Birgit Däwes. "Indigenous Knowledges in North America: An Introduction." Indigenous Knowledges in North America. Special Edition of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA). 68.2 (2020), 105-110, DOI: 10.1515/zaa-2020-0013.
"Introduction." Indigenous Knowledges and Academic Discourses; Les savoirs autochtones et les discours scientifiques; Indigenes Wissen und Akademische Diskurse. Special Edition of Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien (ZKS). 67.1 (2018): 10-23, http://www.kanada-studien.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ZKS_2018-67_2Knopf.pdf
"Jindabyne and the Apology: Intercultural Relations, Violence, Ethics, and the Precarious State of Reconciliation in Australian Cinema." Zeitschrift für Australienstudien / Australian Studies Journal. 30 (2016): 61-88.
"The Turn Toward the Indigenous: Knowledge Systems and Practices in the Academy." Amerikastudien/American Studies. 60.2/3 (2015): 179-200.
"Kangaroos, Petrol, Joints, and Sacred Stones: Australian Cinema Decolonized." Studies in Australasian Cinema. Special Issue Decolonizing Screens. Eds. Felicity Collins and Jane Landman. 7.2-3 (2013): 189-200.
"'Sharing Our Stories With All Canadians': Aboriginal Media and Aboriginal Media Politics in Canada." American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 34.1 (2010): 89-120.
"Terra – Terror – Terrorism?: Land, Colonization, and Protest in Canadian Aboriginal Literature." Canadian Journal of Native Studies. 27.2 (2007): 293-329.
"'Oh Canada': Reflections of Multiculturalism in the Poetry of African Canadian Women Dub Artists." Views of Canadian Cultures. Ed. Matthias Merkl, La revue LISA/LISA e-journal Vol.III.2 (2005): 78-111 (http://lisa.revues.org/2562).
"Geschichte Filmen: die Perspektive kanadischer indigener FilmemacherInnen." Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien. 19.2 (1999): 175-185.
Non-Peer-Reviewed Articles:
“The Role of International Canadian Studies for Knowledge Diplomacy.” Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien (ZKS). 42 (2022): 118-122. (http://www.kanada-studien.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ZKS_2022_Futures.pdf)
Knopf, Kerstin, and Katja Sarkowsky. “Political Correctness gefährdet nicht die Wissenschaftsfreiheit: Ein Plädoyer für die Herausforderung der Wissenschaft durch gesellschaftliche Anliegen.“ Forschung & Lehre. 05 (2017): 384-385.
With Grit Alter. "Native Cinema Conquers Europe: Four Sheets to the Wind in the EFL-Class Room." Praxis Fremdsprachenunterricht. 5 (2011): 12-15.
"Mein Bruder Winnetou: Indianer-Repräsentation im Deutschen Film." Schnitt: Das Filmmagazin. 49.1 (2008): 18-19.
"Filmfestival ImagineNATIVE: Killing the Indian, Celebrating the Indigenous."Schnitt:Das Filmmagazin. 49.1 (2008): 31.
Articles in Book Editions:
"Commodifying Bodies and Culture – Canada's Stolen Sisters in Carl Bessai's Film Unnatural & Accidental (2006)." First Women and the Politics of Looking: Gender, Indigeneity and Representation. Eds. Kim Verwaayen, Wendy Pearson, Ernie Blackmore and Renee Bedard. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press (forthcoming).
"Nuummioq and Anori – Greenlanders and Land, Mythic Past, Modernity." Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film. Eds. Ernie Blackmore, Kerstin Knopf, Wendy Pearson, Corina Wieser-Cox. London: Routledge (forthcoming).
Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Stefan Partelow, and Kerstin Knopf. “Knowing the ocean: epistemic inequalities in patterns of science collaboration.” Ocean governance knowledge: systems, policy foundations and thematic analyses. Eds. Stefan Partelow, Maria Hadjimichael, and Anna-Katharina Hornidge. Cham: Springer Nature, 2023. 25-45.
"Land through the Camera: Post/Colonial Space and Indigenous Struggles in Birdwatchers [Terra Vermelha]." Biopolitics – Geopolitics – Life: Settler States and Indigenous Presences. Eds. René Dietrich and Kerstin Knopf. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023. 245-71.
Gisela Febel, Kerstin Knopf, Martin Nonhoff. “Contradiction Studies: Exploring the Field. An Introduction.” Contradiction Studies – Exploring the Field. Eds. Gisela Febel, Kerstin Knopf, Martin Nonhoff. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2023. 1-74.
"Leslie Marmon Silko (1948-)." Handbook of the American Short Story. Eds. Erik Redling and Oliver Scheiding. Series: Handbooks of English and American Studies: Text and Theory. Eds. Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl and Hubert Zapf. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. 533-53.
"The Prison Space Embodied in American Women’s Prison Literature." We the People?The United States and the Question of Rights. Eds. Irina Brittner, Sabine N. Meyer, and Peter Schneck. Heidelberg: Winter, 2020. 211-29.
With Detlev Quintern. "Introduction: From Marx to Global Marxism: Eurocentrism, Resistance, Postcolonial Criticism." From Marx to Global Marxism: Eurocentrism, Resistance, Postcolonial Criticism. Eds. Kerstin Knopf and Detlev Quintern. Trier: WVT, 2020. 7-37.
"The Northern Frontier Gothic in Canadian Literature: Robert Service’s The Trail of ’98." Die Arktis stirbt. Der Hohe Norden Norden Kanadas und Québecs: ein faszinierender Lebensraum vor extremen Herausforderungen. / The Arctic Is Dying: The Far North of Canada and Québec: A Fascinating Habitat Facing Extreme Challenges. / L'arctique est en train de mourir. Le Grand Nord du Canada et du Québec: un écosystème fascinant face à des défis extrêmes. Eds. Helga Bories-Sawala and Stephan-Alexander Ditze. Trier: WVT, 2020. 159-173.
"Indigenous Knowledges, Ecology, and Living Heritage in North America." DEcolonial Heritage: Natures, Cultures, and the Asymmetries of Memory. Eds. Aníbal Arregui, Gesa Mackenthun and Stephanie Wodianka. Münster: Waxmann, 2018. 175-202.
"Decolonization and Postcolonial Film in Canada, Brazil, Australia and Nigeria." The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing: New Contexts, New Narratives, New Debates. Ed. Jenni Ramone. London et.al.: Bloomsbury, 2018. 191-204.
"Exploring for the Empire: Franklin, Rae, Dickens, and the Natives in Australian and Canadian Literature." Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires. Eds. Barbara Buchenau and Virginia Richter. Leiden, Amsterdam and New York: Brill/Rodopi, 2015. 69-100.
"A Benighted America?: Slavery, Convict Labor, and Chain Gangs in American Prison Literature." Rural America. Eds. Antje Kley and Heike Paul. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015. 95-110.
"'An interminable Cretan labyrint': Tattoos as Text in Herman Melville's Sea Fiction." Probing the Skin: Cultural Representations of our Contact Zone. Eds. Caroline Rosenthal and Dirk Vanderbeke. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. 122-57.
"Bourdieu, Transnational Cinema and the Commodification of Indigenous Cultures: Avatar – Birdwatchers – Decolonized Film." Selling Ethnicity and Race. Consumerism and Representation in Twenty-First-Century America. Eds. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez, Frank Usbeck, Anne Grob and Maria Lippold. Trier: WVT, 2015. 47-68.
"Transkulturalität und Transdifferenz im Indigenen Kino in Australien und Neuseeland." Transkulturelle Dynamiken: Aktanten, Prozesse, Theorien. Eds. Jutta Ernst und Florian Freitag. Bielefeld: transcript, 2015. 307-341.
"The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: Arctic History as Post/Colonial Cinema." Reverse Shots: Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context. Eds. Wendy Pearson and Susan Knabe. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014. 141-75.
"'The exquisite horror of their reality': Native and 'White' Cannibals in American and Canadian Historiography and Literature." F(e)asting Fitness? Cultural Images, Social Practices, and Histories of Food and Health. Eds. Annekatrin Metz, Markus M. Müller, and Lutz Schowalter. Trier: WVT, 2013. 19-46.
"Zacharias Kunuk, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)." Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture: Film Part I. Eds. Susanne Peters, Klaus Stierstorfer, Dirk Vanderbeke, and Laurenz Volkmann. Trier: WVT, 2013. 47-67.
"Chris Eyre, Smoke Signals (1998)." Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture: Film Part II. Eds. Susanne Peters, Klaus Stierstorfer, Dirk Vanderbeke, and Laurenz Volkmann. Trier: WVT, 2013. 611-32.
"'Joseph you know him he don trus dah Anglais.'-Or: English as (Post)colonial Language in Canadian Indigenous Films." Maria Campbell: Essays on her Works. Guernica Writers Series. Ed. Jolene Armstrong. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2012, 53-70.
reprint of the article from: The Politics of English as a World Language. Cross/Cultures Series 65. ASNEL Papers 7. Ed. Christian Mair. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2003, 467-477.
"What, are the Indians Blue Now? Avatar's Tribal and Global Contents." North America in the 21st Century: Tribal, Local, and Global. Ed. Kerstin Knopf. Trier: WVT, 2011, 323-339.
"Introduction." North America in the 21st Century: Tribal, Local, and Global. Ed. Kerstin Knopf. Trier: WVT, 2011, 1-21.
"Aboriginal Media on the Move: An Outside Perspective on APTN." Indigenous Screen Cultures. Eds. Marian Bredin and Sigurjon Baldur Hafsteinsson. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2010, 87-104.
Slightly revised reprint of the article from: Canada from the Outside In: New Trends in Canadian Studies / Le Canada vu d'ailleurs: Nouvelles approches en études canadiennes. Eds. Pierre Anctil and Zilá Bernd. Canadian Studies / Études canadiennes No. 7. Bruxelles et al.: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2006, 169-187.
"Shooting Back from the 'Other' Side: Aboriginal Documentaries in Canada." Canada in Grainau/ Le Canada à Grainau: A Multidisciplinary Survey of Canadian Studies after 30 Years/ Tour d'horizon multidiscilinaire d'Études canadiennes, 30 and après. CANADIANA 7. Eds. Klaus-Dieter Ertler and Hartmut Lutz. Frankfurt/a.M. et.al.: Peter Lang, 2009, 75-111.
"Atanarjuat: Fast Running and Electronic Storytelling in the Arctic." Transcultural English Studies: Theories, Fictions, Realities. Cross/Cultures Series 102. ASNEL Papers 12. Eds. Frank Schulze-Engler and Sissy Helff. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008, 201-220.
"'Stolen Sisters': Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women as Represented in Canadian Films." Aboriginal Canada Revisited. Ed. Kerstin Knopf. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2008, 360-395.
"Introduction: Aboriginal Canada Revisited." Aboriginal Canada Revisited. Ed. Kerstin Knopf. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2008, 2-27.
"Media Literacy and the Challenges for Educators." Media and American Studies in the EFL-Classroom. Eds. Jürgen Donnerstag and Laurenz Volkmann. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008, 51-81.
"Trickster Meets Camp in the Wild West: Kent Monkman's Visual and Cinematic Art Dialogism." What is Your Place? Indigeneity and Immigration in Canada. Ed. Hartmut Lutz with Thomas Rafico Ruiz. Beiträge zur Kanadistik. Vol. 14. Augsburg: Wißner, 2007, 83-100.
"Imagining Indians: Subverting Global Media Politics in the Local Media." Global Fragments: (Dis)Orientation in the New World Order. Cross/Cultures Series 90. ASNEL Papers 10. Eds. Anke Bartels and Dirk Wiemann. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007, 117-138.
"Labeling Gender: HeteroSexismus in Calvin Klein Werbung." Sex/ismus und Medien. Eds. Kerstin Knopf and Monika Schneikart. Herbolzheim: Centaurus, 2007, 215-239.
With Monika Schneikart. "Einleitung." Sex/ismus und Medien. Eds. Kerstin Knopf and Monika Schneikart. Herbolzheim: Centaurus, 2007, 13-27.
"Portrait: Kerstin Knopf." Gender Aufgreifen: 10 Jahre Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Frauen- und Geschlechterstudien an der Universität Greifswald. Eds. Andrea Bettels, Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Christoph Kühberger, and Christiane Streubel. Putbus: Rügendruck Putbus, 2006, 30-31.
"Cherríe Moraga: Heroes and Saints." Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture: Drama. Part II. Eds. Susanne Peters, Klaus Stierstorfer, and Laurenz Volkmann. Trier: WVT, 2006, 369-388.
"Chris Eyre Goes to Hollywood: Indigenous Filmmaking between Subversion, Criticism, and Assimilation." Americas' Worlds and the World's Americas/Les mondes des Amériques et les Amériques du monde. Eds. Amaryll Chanady, George Handley, and Patrick Imbert. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2006, 267-278.
"Aboriginal Media on the Move: An Outside Perspective on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network." Canada from the Outside In: New Trends in Canadian Studies / Le Canada vu d'ailleurs: Nouvelles approches en études canadiennes. Eds. Pierre Anctil and Zilá Bernd. Canadian Studies / Études canadiennes No. 7. Bruxelles et al.: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2006, 169-187.
"Walking New Ways in Old Shoes: The Film Honey Moccasin as an Example of Modern Indigenous Filmmaking in Canada." Connections: Non-Native Perspectives on Canadian Native Writers. Eds. Coomi Vevaina and Hartmut Lutz. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2003, 60-92.
"'Joseph you know him he don trus dah Anglais.'-Or: English as (Post)colonial Language in Canadian Indigenous Films." The Politics of English as a World Language. Cross/Cultures Series 65. ASNEL Papers 7. Ed. Christian Mair. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2003, 467-477.
"Talk and Silence of Aboriginal Voices: The Film Talker as an Expression of Aboriginal Technologized Storytelling." European Perspectives on Canadian Culture and Society. Eds. Jaap Lintvelt and W.M. Verhoeven. Phoenix Press, 2001, 63-91.
Articles in Journals:
Knopf, Kerstin, and Katja Sarkowsky. “Political Correctness gefährdet nicht die Wissenschaftsfreiheit: Ein Plädoyer für die Herausforderung der Wissenschaft durch gesellschaftliche Anliegen.“ Forschung & Lehre 05, 2017. 384-385.
With Grit Alter. "Native Cinema Conquers Europe: Four Sheets to the Wind in the EFL-Class Room." Praxis Fremdsprachenunterricht. 5 (2011): 12-15.
"Mein Bruder Winnetou: Indianer-Repräsentation im Deutschen Film." Schnitt: Das Filmmagazin. 49.1 (2008): 18-19.
"Filmfestival ImagineNATIVE: Killing the Indian, Celebrating the Indigenous."Schnitt:Das Filmmagazin. 49.1 (2008): 31.
Miscellaneous:
"Indigene Filme dekolonisieren historische Diskurse / Indigenous Films Decolonize Historical Cinema Discourses." Jan-Philipp Kohlmann. Interview mit Kerstin Knopf. kinofenster.de. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. 24 March 2020.
"Sühne für einen deutschen Völkermord in Afrika." Weser-Kurier. 5 January 2015, p.2.
“Unsere Gier nach Rohstoffen fördert die Vertreibung: Über die Verantwortung des Westens für die Flüchtlingsströme.“ Weser-Kurier, 5 January 2015, p.2.
"What, are the Indians Blue Now? Avatar's Tribal and Global Contents." Teaching and Learning Material, Marshal McLuhan Salon, Embassy of Canada, Berlin.
"Atanarjuat: Inuit Cinema Fast and Furious in the EFL-classroom." Teaching and Learning Material, Marshal McLuhan Salon, Embassy of Canada, Berlin (2011): 1-19, http://mcluhan-salon.de/media/material/Inuit%20Cinema%20Atanarjuat%20ADVANCED.pdf.
"Mein Bruder Winnetou: Indianer-Repräsentation im Deutschen Film." Schnitt: Das Filmmagazin. 49.1 (2008): 18-19.
"Filmfestival ImagineNATIVE: Killing the Indian, Celebrating the Indigenous."Schnitt:Das Filmmagazin. 49.1 (2008): 31.
"Die indigene Bevölkerung Kanadas Heute." Marshal McLuhan Salon, Embassy of Canada, Berlin (2008): 1-9.
"Aboriginal Film in Canada: An Overview." Marshal McLuhan Salon, Embassy of Canada, Berlin (2008): 1-8.
"Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN)." Marshal McLuhan Salon, Embassy of Canada, Berlin (2008): 1-6.
Encyclopedia Entry:
"Birdwatchers." Directory of World Cinema: Brazil. Ed. Natalia Piazza and Louis Bayman. Bristol and Chicago: intellect, 2013. 156-58.
Book Reviews:
Belinda Wheeler, ed.: A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature. In: Zeitschrift für Australienstudien / Australian Studies Journal. 30 (2016): 126-132.
Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar, and Christian Feest, eds. Native Americans and First Nations: A Transnational Challenge.In: Amerikastudien/American Studies. 60.1 (2015): http://dgfa.de/waldemar-zacharasiewicz-and-christian-feest-eds-native-americans-and-first-nations-a-transnational-challenge-paderborn-ferdinand-schoeningh-2009-259-pp/
Gruber, Eva. Humor in Contemporary Native North American Literature: Reimagining Nativeness. European Studies in American Literature and Culture. in: Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien. 29:2 (2009): 159-162.
Heide, Markus, und Claudia Kotte. Kanadischer Film: Geschichte, Themen, Tendenzen. in: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA). LVII. Jg. 1:1 (2009): 103-104.
Calloway, Colin G., Gerd Gemünden, and Susanne Zantop, eds. Germans & Indians: Fantasies, Encounters, Projections. in: Journal of American Studies (JAS). 37:3 (2003): 461-462.
Film Production:
Documentary Film: Castor 440/84. Dir./Writ. Kerstin Knopf, 2000, 37 min.