Horst Tonn received his Ph.D. from the Free University Berlin with a dissertation on Chicano Literature. His major research interests are Hispanic American literature and culture, documentary (writing, film, photography), cultural globalization, media representations of war, social movements and civil rights issues. Before he came to Tübingen in 1996, he taught at the Universities of Mainz/Germersheim, Duisburg and Erlangen. He was a research fellow at Harvard Univ. and at the Univ. of California/Irvine and he was visiting professor at California State Univ./Fullerton, the Univ. of Maryland and at Poone Univ. in India. His major publications are: Zeitgenössische Chicano-Erzählliteratur in englischer Sprache: Autobiographie und Roman (Frankfurt/M., 1988); Wahre Geschichten. Die amerikanische Dokumentarliteratur im 20. Jahrhundert (Essen, 1996); Kriegskorrespondenten: Deutungsinstanzen in der Mediengesellschaft. Ed. with Barbara Korte (Wiesbaden, 2007); Amerikanisierung – Globalisierung. Transnationale Prozesse im europäischen Alltag. Ed. with Ute Bechdolf and Reinhard Johler (Trier, 2007); Von Selma bis Ferguson – Rasse und Rassismus in den USA. Ed. with Michael Butter and Astrid Franke (Bielefeld, 2016).
