Priscilla Layne

Priscilla Layne (born 1981 in Evanston, Illinois) studied comparative literature at the University of Chicago and received her PhD in German from the University of California, Berkeley. She became a professor of German and an adjunct associate professor of African Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her book *White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture* was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2018. She has also published essays on Turkish German culture, translation, punk, and film, and translated Olivia Wenzel’s novel *1000 Coils of Fear* from German into English.