Englisches Seminar

Dr. Johanna Roering

Associate Professor

Contact


johanna.roeringspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Phone: (+49) (0)7071-29-74566

Office Hours: Tuesday, 14-15 h

  • 9 Dec, 23 Dec, 13 Jan, 27 Jan via Zoom
  • 16 Dec, 20 Jan, 3 Feb in person

Room: 507, Wilhelmstr. 50, 72074 Tübingen

Johanna Roering has been working in the American Studies Department since 2021. She received her PhD from the University of Tübingen and published Soldatische Kriegsberichterstattung in digitalen Medien in 2012. She has taught at the University of Potsdam, University of Maryland and Humboldt University. She completed a Master of Education in 2024. She worked as an IT Consultant and teacher and is active in anti-racist education. She has two children and is at home in Berlin.

Academic Career

since 2025
Associate Professor

Department of American Studies
University of Tübingen

since 2025
Teaching staff, EFL didactics

Humboldt University

2021-2025
Master of Education ISS-Gym, English and History

Free University of Berlin

2021-2023
Research Assistant

Department of American Studies
University of Tübingen

2011
PhD in American Studies

University of Tübingen

2005
M.A. in American Studies

University of Tübingen

Research Interests

Johanna Roering’s research interests include 19th century American popular culture, especially blackface Minstrelsy theatre and its 20th century legacies, Civil War memorialization, digital war representation, digital culture and technolibertarian political discourse in current American politics.

Teaching

Winter Semester 2025/2026

Summer Semester 2025

Selected Publications

  • Krieg bloggen: Soldatische Kriegsberichterstattung in digitalen Medien (2012)
  • Der Krieg um Informationen. Taz. 3.5.2025.
  • He Got Educated Feet! Dance as Embodied Resistance in Stormy Weather. In: Rita Rieger ed. Freedom to Move: Dance as Cultural Manifestation. (2015)
  • Propaganda aus dem Feldbett: Military Blogs als Teilnehmer an der Kriegsberichterstattung. Felix Reer et.al. Krieg und Konflikt in den Medien: Multidisziplinäre Perspektiven auf mediale Kriegsdarstellungen und deren Wirkung. Herbert von Halem Verlag. (2015)
  • "I Feel for You" Television Characters Blogging. In: Ingrid Hotz-Davis et.al. eds. Internet Fictions: Between Virtual Self-Fashioning and Consumer Tailoring. Cambridge Scholarly Press. (2009)

Recent Media Appearances & Conference Talks

  • Democratic Etiquettes: Developing Critical Racial Literacy in German Classrooms (Jasmin Blunt, Prof. Astrid Franke, Dr. Isabell Klaiber, Dr. Johanna Roering. International Forum on Global South Studies. Doing Futures in Precarious Times. October 31st 2025.
  • Rassistische und gewaltverherrlichende Kostüme - Hintergründe und Handlungsoptionen. Team Diversity. Universität Tübingen, 2025.
  • Von Blackfacing zu Blackfishing – Von Jim Crow bis Shirin David. Black History Month, BiPoC+ Feminismen* Tübingen, 2025.
  • Wurmlinger Pfingstritt mit "Mohrenkönig", aber ohne schwarze Farbe im Gesicht, Interview mit Lisamarie Haas-Baum, SWR, 27.8.2025.
  • "Mohrenkönig" beim Wurmlinger Pfingstritt: weiter heftig umstritten, Interview mit Theresa Krampfl, SWR, 6.6.2025.
  • Zur Fasnet gilt: Nicht nach unten treten! Interview mit Miri Watson, Südwestpresse, 27.2.2025.