Tim hails from a large, southern family, many of whom are settled in Alabama and Georgia, though some in the North and West coast. He holds his MA in Advanced Anglophone Studies from Leibniz University of Hanover, where he specialized in Toni Morrison’s works. Tim lives on the Schlei by the Baltic Sea with his fiancé and their two children. In his spare time, Tim sails on his 1975 Phantom 34 and enjoys making modifications for comfort, efficiency and sometimes for aesthetics.
As writers must read, here are some writers Tim enjoys:
Toni Morrison: This one is obvious. Her work is bold. She used language to address the taboo. I always learn something about the world when I read Morrison.
Samuel R. Delaney: Another bold writer. If you’ve ever been in the trenches of “Dhalgren”, you know.
James S.A. Corey: There is not much to say about The Expanse that has not already been said. These guys did something incredible with this series, raising the bar even higher for what good science fiction of its aesthetic can and should be.
Literary Poetry: Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson
Current Reads:
The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu (1010) (10th year reading)
Conferences
German Association for American Studies Annual Conference – Oldenburg University (6/2024) The Sound of Stillness: Sonic Masculinities in N.K. Jemisin’s “The Fifth Season”
Leakages: The Inaugural Conference for Stsing – TU Dresden (03/2024) Talk: Conduction and Memory Lapse in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The Water Dancer”
Lecture: Invited by Dr. habil. Julia Nitz Talk: Applied Afrofuturism: 8 January 2024 (90 minutes) – University of Halle-Wittenberg
Wittenberg Teachers Training Conference Oceanizing American Perspectives (11/2023) Muhlenberg Center for American Studies - Talk: Afrofuturism in the EFL Classroom
50th Annual Austrian American Studies Conference – Speculative Versions of America (10/2023) Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Talk: America the Wildseed: Octavia Butler’s Speculative Versions of a Disrupted Past
SFRA/GfF Disruptive Imaginations: Annual Conference (08/2023) SFRA/GfF – TU Dresden Talk: Disruptive Imaginations: Examining the Ethos of Sankofa and Kinship in Nnedi’s Okorafor’s “Binti” series
Wittenberg Teacher Training ConferenceCurrent Issues of American Culture in the Classroom (11/2019) – Muhlenberg Center for American Studies – Talk: Low and High Risk Activism in the AA-Community