Professor Ulrike Hanna Meinhof

Modern Languages
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BJ

Position: Professor

Location: 65/3085
Extension: 22255
Telephone: (023) 8059 2255
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Biographical notes

Ulrike Hanna Meinhof is Professor of German and Cultural Studies and a specialist in discourse analysis. Her main areas of research currently involve ethnographic research on transnational networks of migrants, especially musicians from African countries, in multicultural neighbourhoods across European border communities, in provincial regions and in metropolitan spaces across Europe.

Qualifications: MA (Munich). DPhil (Sussex)

Teaching interests

Language and identity
Transnationalism, music and migration
Media language, especially television discourses
Sociolinguistics and pragmatics
Cultural Studies

Research expertise

Migration and diaspora studies, border studies, cultural identity, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and pragmatics, media studies.

Current research projects

Diaspora as social and cultural practice: a study of transnational networks across Europe and Africa

(principal applicant, co-applicant Dr Nadia Kiwan, University of Aberdeen, research fellow Dr Marie-Pierre Gibert)

Awarded by: AHRC programme 'Diaspora, Migration and Identity'
Duration: 1st November 2006-2009
Website: www.tnmundi.com

Summary: This project focuses on the ways in which (post-)migrant cultural practitioners, performers, and musicians originating from North-Africa and Madagascar are able to use multiple translocal and transnational networks across African, European and wider global spaces. It suggests that artists who create or enter such networks make use of, but go far beyond the traditional 'bi-focal', ethnically and spatially defined communities that link originating and sending countries, as studied in much Diaspora research.

Our research marks a key development in the empirical study of networks, by investigating links between migrant cultural practitioners which develop outside of established cultural/historical ties.

SeFoNe: Searching for Neighbours: dynamics of mental and physical borders in Europe

(coordinator and research director, co-director Dr Heidi Armbruster, Southampton, with a consortium consisting of 6 European Universities)

Awarded by: EU VIth Framework
Duration: 1st March 2007-February 2010
Website: www.sefone.net

Summary: In the process of EU enlargement, the need for building good neighbourhoods across and within EU nation states is periodically challenged by "nationalised" socio-political conflicts which at the same time encourage parties on the extreme right. Our project aims to explore and compare models of 'translocal' neighbourhood, focusing on emerging discourses and good practices in three spheres of life in the new Europe:

Physical "borderlands" of the new EU (Hungary and Cypros)
Mental border experiences in multicultural EU regions (Sicily, Upper Franc onia and Saxony)
Mental and physical border experiences in transnational networks (African migrants across Europe)

It rests on the assumption that it is impossible to understand the processes which create obstacles to and opportunities for good neighbourhood across state borders, if one does not understand and challenge obstacles created by mental/symbolic divisions wherever they occur.

We will explore the dynamics of socio-cultural and physical borders in the newly enlarged European Union, as experienced by people of culturally diverse backgrounds, with a view to strengthen peoples' competence for cultural understanding and exchange.

Previous research projects

EU Border Identities

Website: www.borderidentities.com

Coordinator of a Fifth Framework consortium with a project into discursive construction of identities in European border communities (SERD-1999-00023) 1 Feb 2000 - 31 Jan 2003.

Changing City Spaces. New Challenges to Cultural Policy in Europe

Website: www.citynexus.soton.ac.uk

Coordinator of a Fifth Framework consortium with a project entitled: Changing City Spaces. New Challenges to Cultural Policy in Europe. (SERD-2002-00038) 1 Nov 2002 - 30 Oct 2005. The research focuses in particular on migrant artists of African, Turkish and 'Balkan' origin, living in 7 capital cities in Europe, and their experiences with metropolitan, national and European policies of 'cultural diversity'.

Other positions

Participation in the LINEE network (Languages in a Network of European Excellence), directing a project entitled ‘Multilingualism amongst minority populations: a case of transcultural capital or social exclusion?’
Awarded by: EU Network of Excellence
Duration: from 1st November 2005
Summary: A cross-cultural study of the different patterns that emerge when comparing different groups of bi-/ multilingual citizens of European countries. Particular emphasis will lie on first and second generation migrants of Francophone Africa who settled in France and Germany, and on Vietnames populations in the Czech Republic.
Principal partner of an ESRC project into discursive construction of identities on the former German-German and German-Polish border (ESRCR000 22 2899) with D. Galasinski. May 1999 - October 2000.
Coordinator of a research project 'The televisual construction of the 20th century at the eve of the millennium' (AHRB) 1999-2000.

Postgraduate supervision

Nikky Puckey, metal music scene in Southampton (with an advisor from music faculty)
Jenny Fuhr, Experiencing rhythm: Contemporary Malagasy music and identity
Hilke Engfer ‘Polish care workers in 24 hours home eldercare in Germany- an interdiscursive perspective’

Recent completed postgraduate supervision

Bettna Krafft, pragmatics of complaints (co-supervisor Patrick Stevenson)

Recent and significant publications

Selected articles and chapters in books relating to the TNMundi project

Gibert, Marie-Pierre & Ulrike H. Meinhof (2009) ‘Inspiration triangulaire. Musique, tourism et dévelopement a Madagascar’. IN Cahiers d’études Africaines. XLIX (1-2), 193-194, pp 227-256.
Meinhof, Ulrike H. (in press 2009). ‘Transnational flows, networks and ‘transcultural capital: reflections on researching migrant networks thorugh linguistic ethnography.’’ In James Collins, Stef Slembrouck, and Mike Baynham (eds.) (in press, 2009). Globalization and Language in Contact. Scale, Migration and Communicative Practices. London and New York: Continuum, pp. 148-169.

Selected publications relating to the Border identities project

Books and special journal issues

Meinhof, Ulrike H. (ed.), 2002. Living (with) Borders: Identity Discourses on East-West Borders in Europe. Border Regions Studies 1, Aldershot : Ashgate.
Meinhof, Ulrike H., (ed.), 2003. Bordering European Identities. Special Issue. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 29 (5).
Meinhof, Ulrike H & Dariusz Galasinski (2005). The Language of Belonging. Plagrave.
Wastl-Walter, Doris and Ulrike H. Meinhof (eds) 2003. Identités et mutation le long de l'ancien rideau de fer. Revue Geographic de l'Est XLIII: 4

Selected articles and chapters in books

Armbruster, Heidi & Ulrike H. Meinhof (2004). 'Memories of Home? Narratives of Readjustment on the German/Polish and former German/German Borders' in The Sociolinguistics of Narrative edited by J.Thornborrow & J.Coates
Galasinski, Dariusz & Ulrike H. Meinhof (2002). Looking across the river. German-Polish border communities and the construction of the other. Journal of Language and Politics. 1:1, pp. 25-58
Meinhof, U.H. & Galasinski, D (2000). Photography, memory, and the construction of identities on the former East-West German border. Discourse Studies, 2(3). 323-353.
Meinhof, U.H (2001). 'Discourse and Identity'. In Camilla Bettoni, Antonio Zampolli and Daniela Zorzi (eds) Atti del 2° congresso di studi dell'Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata. Guerra Edizioni
Meinhof, Ulrike H. & Dariusz Galasinski (2002). 'Reconfiguring East-West identities: cross-generational discourses in German and Polish border communities' Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Vol 28:163-82.
Meinhof, Ulrike H. (2004). "Europe viewed from below: Agents, victims, and the threat of the other." In Transnational Identities. Becoming European in the EU, R. Herrmann, T. Risse and M. Brewer (eds.2004), Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 214-244

Selected publications relating to the Changing City Spaces project

Books

Meinhof, Ulrike H. & Anna Triandafyllidou (eds.) Transcultural Europe. Cultural Policy in a changing Europe. Palgrave

Selected articles and chapters in books relating to the Changing City Spaces project

Meinhof, Ulrike H. & Zafimahaleo Rasolofondraosolo (2005). 'Malagasy Song-Writer Musicians in transnational Settings'. Moving Worlds 144-158
Meinhof, Ulrike H. (2005). 'Initiating a public: Malagasy music and live audiences in differentiated cultural contexts'. In S.Livingstone ed. (in press) Audiences and Publics When cultural engagement matters for the public sphere. Intellect press
Rasolofondraosolo, Z. & Ulrike H. Meinhof (2003). Popular Malagasy music and the construction of cultural identities. In S. Makoni & Ulrike H. Meinhof (eds.) Africa and Applied Linguistics. Aila review 16:127-148

Selected books and journal editions on language, media, and gender issues

Johnson, Sally & U.H Meinhof (eds.) (1997). Masculinity and Language, Blackwell, Oxford , January 1997 (includes single-authored chapter and co-authored introduction)
Makoni, Sinfree & U.H Meinhof (eds.) (2003). Africa and Applied Linguistics.AILA Review Volume 16
Meinhof, U.H & Jonathan Smith (eds.) (2000). Intertextuality and the Media. From Genre to Everyda Life. Manchester University Press (includes 3 co-authored chapters)
Meinhof, U.H (1998). Language Learning in the Age of Satellite Television. Oxford University Press.
Meinhof, U.H and Kay Richardson (eds.) (1994). Text, Discourse and Context. Representation of Poverty in Britain. (Longman: London & New York . Joint winner of the 1995 BAAL book prize. (Includes single-authored chapter and co-authored introduction).
Richardson , Kay & U.H Meinhof (1999). Worlds in Common? Television discourse in a changing Europe. Routledge: London & New York.

Selected articles and chapters in books and journals on language, media, and gender issues

Makoni, Sinfree & U.H Meinhof (2004). 'Western perspectives in applied linguistics in Africa ' . AILA Review 17:77-104.
Meinhof, U.H (1996). 'Dialect as metaphor: the use of language in Edgar Reitz' Heimat -films'. In H. Coleman & L. Cameron (eds) Language and Change. British Studies in Applied Linguistics. Vol 10. Multilingual Matters, pp. 168-78.
Meinhof, U.H & Kay Richardson (1998) 'Home and Away: television discourse in transition' (with K. Richardson) Current Issues in Language and Society, Vol 5:4 Multilingual Matters (published in 1999, also in book format)
Meinhof, U.H (2003) 'Bodies exposed: A cross-cultural comparison of the 'Sauanland' in Germany and Britain . In J. Coupland & R. Gwyn (eds) Discourse, the Body and Identity. Palgrave.
Meinhof, U.H (2004) 'Metadiscourses of culture in British TV commercials' In Adam Jaworski, Nikolas Coupland, and Dariusz Galasinski (eds.) Metalanguage. Social and Ideological Perspectives. De Gruyter

Teaching responsibilities for Professor Ulrike Hanna Meinhof
Module title	Module code	Discipline	Role
Discourses of Identity	GERM3004	German Studies	Course leader
Media Perspectives On Post-68 Germany	GERM2003	German Studies	Course leader
Introduction to German Linguistic Studies	GERM1002	German Studies	Tutor

Publications from e–Prints Soton

	Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna and Triandafyllidou, Anna (eds.) (2006) Transcultural Europe: cultural policy in a changing Europe, Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave Macmillan, 328pp.
	Kiwan, Nadia and Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna (2006) Perspectives on cultural diversity: a discourse analytical approach. In, Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna and Triandafyllidou, Anna (eds.) Transcultural Europe: Cultural Policy in a Changing Europe. Basingstoke, UK; New York, USA, Palgrave Macmillan, 57-84.
	Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna and Triandafyllidou, Anna (2006) Beyond the diaspora: transnational practices as transcultural capital. In, Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna and Triandafyllidou, Anna (eds.) Transcultural Europe: Cultural Policy in a Changing Europe. Basingstoke, UK; New York, USA, Palgrave Macmillan, 200-222.
	Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna and Triandafyllidou, Anna (2006) Transcultural Europe: an introduction to cultural policy in a changing Europe. In, Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna and Triandafyllidou, Anna (eds.) Transcultural Europe: Cultural Policy in a Changing Europe. Basingstoke, UK; New York, USA, Palgrave Macmillan, 3-23.
	Armbruster, Heidi and Meinhof, Ulrike H. (2005) Storying East-German pasts: memory discourses and narratives of readjustment on the German/Polish and former German/German border. In, Thornborrow, Joanna and Coates, Jennifer (eds.) The Sociolinguistics of Narrative. Amsterdam, Netherlands and Philadelphia, USA, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 41-65. (Studies in narrative).
	Meinhof, U. and Galasinski, D. (2005) The language of belonging, New York, USA, Palgrave Macmillan, 216pp.
	Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna (2005) Initiating a public: Malagasy music and live audiences in differentiated cultural contexts. In, Livingstone, Sonia (ed.) Audience and Publics: When Cultural Engagement Matters for the Public Sphere. Bristol, UK, Portland, USA, Intellect Books, 115-138. (Changing Media – Changing Europe Series 2).
	Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna (2004) Europe viewed from below: agents, victims and the threat of the other. In, Herrmann, Richard K., Risse, Thomas and Brewer, Marilynn B. (eds.) Transnational Identities: Becoming European in the EU. Lanham, USA, Oxford, UK, Rowman and Littlefield, 214-246. (Governance in Europe).
	Meinhof, Ulrike H. Meinhof, Ulrike H. (ed.) (2003) Migrating borders: an introduction to European identity construction in process. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 29, (5), 781-796. (doi:10.1080/1369183032000149569)
	Meinhof, U.H. (ed.) (2003) Africa and applied linguistics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, John Benjamins, 180pp. (AILA Review, 16)
	Armbruster, Heidi and Meinhof, Ulrike (2003) Vécu et perception de la frontière entre la RDA et la RFA. Revue Geographique de l’Est, 43, (4), 151-160.
	Armbruster, Heidi, Rollo, C. and Meinhof, Ulrike H. (2003) Imagining Europe: everyday narratives in European border communities. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 29, (5), 885-899. (doi:10.1080/1369183032000149622)
	Meinhof, Ulrike H. (ed.) (2002) Living (with) borders, Aldershot, UK, Ashgate, 162pp. (Border Regions Series)
	Armbruster, Heidi and Meinhof, Ulrike H. (2002) Working identities: key narratives in a former border region in Germany. In, Meinhof, Ulrike H. (ed.) Living (with) Borders. Aldershot, England, Ashgate, 15-32. (Border Regions Series).
	Galasinska, Aleksandra, Rollo, Craig and Meinhof, Ulrike H. (2002) Urban space and the construction of identity on the German-Polish border. In, Meinhof, Ulrike H. (ed.) Living (with) Borders. Identity Discourses on East-West Borders in Europe. Aldershot, England, Ashgate, 119-140. (Border regions series).
	Meinhof, Ulrike H., Armbruster, Heidi and Rollo, Craig (2002) Identity discourses on East-West borders in Europe: an introduction. In, Meinhof, Ulrike H. (ed.) Living (with) Borders: Identity Discourses on East-West Borders in Europe. Aldershot, England, Ashgate, 1-14. (Border Regions series).
	Meinhof, Ulrike H. and Galasinski, Dariusz (2002) Re-configuring East-West identities: cross-generational discourses in German and Polish border communities. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 28, (1), 63-82. (doi: 10.1080/13691830120103930)

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