About

Before joining the Institute for English and American Studies at the University of Potsdam, I was Professor of Gender and Diversity Studies at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen (2017-2023) and Juniorprofessor of Ethnic and Postcolonial Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum (2009-2016). I am the author of two books, Embodying Difference: Critical Phenomenology and Narratives of Disability, Race, and Sexuality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), which was translated into German as Verleiblichte Differenz: Kritische Phänomenologie und Narrative Texte über Behinderung, Race und Sexualität (Metzler 2024), and Black/Gay: The Harlem Renaissance, the Protest Era, and Constructions of Black Gay Identity in the 1980s and 90s (Michigan State UP and LIT, 2011). I co-edited the volumes Alle Uns: Differenz, Identität, Repräsentation (Edition Assemblage 2022; with Rebecca Racine Ramershoven), Queer Cinema (Ventil 2018; with Dagmar Brunow), and After the Storm: The Cultural Politics of Hurricane Katrina (Transcript 2015; with Evangelia Kindinger). My current research project is informed by questions of temporality and memory. I am particularly interested in the strategies writers, artists, and activists use to remediate archival materials of social movements that have been all but forgotten. My short films often focus on memory, archives, and queer history and sometimes use found footage. They were selected for screening at German and international film festivals, such as Short Film Festival Hamburg, Kasseler Dokfest, Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival Cardiff, and Hamburg International Queer Film Festival.

Dickel, Simon. Embodying Difference: Critical Phenomenology and Narratives of Disability, Race, and Sexuality. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Dickel, Simon. Verleiblichte Differenz: Kritische Phänomenologie in narrativen Texten zu Behinderung, Race und Sexualität. Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler, 2024.

Dickel, Simon. Black/Gay: The Harlem Renaissance, the Protest Era, and Constructions of Black Gay Identity in the 1980s and 90s. Berlin: LIT, 2011 und East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2012.

Dickel, Simon und Rebecca Racine Ramershoven. Hg. Alle Uns: Differenz, Identität und Repräsentation. Münster: Edition Assemblage, 2022.

Dickel, Simon und Dagmar Brunow. Hg. Queer Cinema. Mainz: Ventil, 2018.

Dickel, Simon und Evangelia Kindinger. Hg. After the Storm: The Cultural Politics of Hurricane Katrina. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015.

Dickel, Simon. “Unpopular Feminism: The Shooting Woman in John Irving’s The World According to Garp“. Ladies in Arms: Representations of Shooting Women in Contemporary Culture. Hg. Hiergeist, Teresa und Stefanie Schäfer. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2024. 255-270.

Dickel, Simon. „‚I Come to You as the Myth‘– Sun Ra und Afrofuturismus“. Kunstfiguren: Ästhetische Strategien und performative Praktiken von künstlerisch gestalteten Identitäten. Hg. Senkpiel, Fabiana, Mira Kandathil und Sybille Heim. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. 91-101.

Dickel, Simon. „Feministische Archive im Film: Moxie (2021) und Yours in Sisterhood (2018) “. Feministische Studien 1: 2023. 68-80.

Dickel, Simon. „Beyond Reproductive Futurism: Harold and Maude’s Ecological Aesthetics“. Aging Studies and Ecocriticism. Hg. Balestrini, Nassim W., Julia Hoydis, Anna-Christina Kainradl und Ulla Kriebernegg. New York: Lexington, 2023. 89-102.

Dickel, Simon. „New Disability Memoirs als wegweisende Texte für eine kritische Phänomenologie“. Zeitschrift für Disability Studies 4: 2023.

Dickel, Simon, Roselyn Masamha, Lennon Mhishi und Florian Zitzelsberger. „Re-Negotiating Discourses on HIV/AIDS During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Debate“. Epidemics and Othering: The Biopolitics of COVID-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives. Hg. Steinhoff, Heike. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2023. 223-240.

Dickel, Simon. „A Patch of Blue“. International Lexicon of Melodrama. Hg. Marius Henderson, Heike Paul u.a. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2022. 123-126.

Dickel, Simon. „Nachwort“. Paola De Martin. Give Us a Break: Arbeitermilieu und Designszene im Aufbruch. Zürich: Diaphanes, 2022. 477-478.

Dickel, Simon und Anne Potjans. „Racial Seeing and Sexual Desire: 1 Berlin Harlem and Auf den Zweiten Blick“. Sexual Culture in Germany in the 1970s:AGolden Age for Queers? Hg. Janin Afken und Benedikt Wolf. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 193-214.

Dickel, Simon. „Phenomenology and the Memoirs of Stephen Kuusisto“. Symbolism 18 (2018): 43-62.

Dickel, Simon. „Black Gay Genealogies“. Melk 3 (2017), 63-65.

Dickel, Simon. „Cpt. Kirk &: Reformhölle“. Damaged Goods: 150 Einträge in die Punkgeschichte. Hg. Jonas Engelmann. Mainz: Ventil, 2016. 256-264.

Dickel, Simon und Michael Bucher. „An Affinity for the Lumpen: Homelessness in Samuel R. Delany’s Bread and Wine and The Mad Man“. African American Review. 48 (3): 2015. 289-304.

Dickel, Simon. „Omar, Johnny und Ich“. Stuart Hall: Aktivismus, Pop und Politik. Hg. Dagmar Brunow. Mainz: Ventil, 2015. 19-26.

Dickel, Simon. „Between Mumblecore and Post-Black Aesthetics: Barry Jenkins’s Medicine for Melancholy“. Understanding Blackness through Performance: Contemporary Arts and the Representation of Identity. Hg. Anne Cremieux, Xavier Lemoine, und Jean-Paul Rocchi. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 109-123.

Dickel, Simon. „Do the Queer Thing: Redefining Contested Spaces in Isaac Julien’s Young Soul Rebels and The Attendant“. Anglisitik und Englischunterricht 75: 2012: 233-248.

Dickel, Simon. „‚Can’t Leave Me Behind:‘ Racism, Gay Politics, and Coming of Age in Howard Cruse’s Stuck Rubber Baby“. Amerikastudien/American Studies 56 (4): 2011. 617-635.

Dickel, Simon. „Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, and Contemporary Constructions of Black and Queer Identities“. Western Fictions, Black Realities. Hg. Violet Johnson und Isabel Soto. Berlin: LIT und East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2011. 183-198.

Dickel, Simon. „Essex Hemphill“. African American National Biography. Hg. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham und Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York und Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008. Vol. 4. 176-177.

Dickel, Simon. „Black Men Loving Black Men and Other Revolutionary Acts: Positionen zu Begehren und Sexualität in Schwarzer Schwuler Kultur“. Testcard: Sex. Beiträge zur Popgeschichte 17. Hg. Roger Behrens, Martin Büsser, Jonas Engelmann, Johannes Ullmaier. Mainz: Ventil, 2008. 172-177.

Dickel, Simon. „In The Life. Identitätspolitische Strategien Afroamerikanischer Schwuler in den 1980er und 1990er Jahren“. Querverbindungen. Interdisziplinäre Annäherungen an Sexualität, Ethnizität und Geschlecht. Hg. Elisabeth Tuider. Berlin: Lit, 2008. 185-202.

Dickel, Simon. „Constructions of Gay Male Whiteness in Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston, Melvin Dixon’s Vanishing Rooms, and Samuel R. Delany’s The Mad Man“. Blackness and Sexualities. Hg. Michelle Wright und Antje Schuhmann. Berlin: LIT, 2007. 59-68.

Dickel, Simon und Johann S. Ach, Kurt Bayertz und Christa Runtenberg. „Reflecting Bioethics“. Biomedical Ethics 5 (1): 2000. 24-26.