Gabriele Dietze
Gabriele Dietze is a German culturologist, university teacher, gender-theorist, essayist and author.
Life and work
Gabriele Dietze studied philosophy, German studies and sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 1977, she received her M.A. in German Literature.In 1979, she published Die Überwindung der Sprachlosigkeit, the first German anthology of theoretical writings from the new women's movement. From 1980 to 1991, she worked as chief editor at Rotbuch Verlag in Berlin. From 1987 to 2001, she was editor of the Rotbuch crime series and worked as a freelance author, essayist and literary critic.
In 1996, she earned her Promotion as a Dr. phil. with her doctoral thesis Genre and Gender. Gender Relations in the American Private detective novel in American Studies with a focus on Cultural Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the FU Berlin. In 2003, she taught American Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin and qualified as full professor with her post-doctoral thesis, "Negotiating Justice. On the competition between emancipatory race and gender discourses from Uncle Tom's Cabin to the O. J. Simpson trial".
She worked at various universities as a research assistant, private lecturer and visiting professor, among others at Columbia University in New York City, as Max-Kade Professor of German at the University of Virginia, as a multiple Harris Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College and as a Bosch visiting professor at the University of Chicago, the University of Basel and at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She has participated in numerous academic research projects.
Her research interests include German and American literature and culture as well as issues of gender, critical race studies and right-wing populism. She published numerous books and essays.
For her concepts of ethnosexism and sexual exceptionalism, Gabriele Dietze has been criticized for arguing antifeminist and homophobic.