Frank Mehring

Frank Mehring is professor of American Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen/NL. His research focuses on cultural transfer, migration, intermediality and the function of music in transnational contexts. He received the Rob Kroes Award for his monograph The Democratic Gap (2014). His publications include Sphere Melodies (2003) on Charles Ives and John Cage, Soundtrack of Liberation (2015) on WWII sonic diplomacy, Sound and Vision: Intermediality and American Music (2018, with Erik Redling) The Mexico Diary: Winold Reiss Between Vogue Mexico and the Harlem Renaissance (2016), The Politics and Cultures of Liberation (2018, with Hans Bak and Mathilde Roza), Islamophobia and Inter/Multimedial Dissensus (2020, with Elena Furlanetto), and The Multicultural Modernism of Winold Reiss (2020). Frank is the co-founder of the European Digital Studies Network and the online journal AmLit – American Literatures (together with Stefan L. Brandt and Tatiani Rapatzikou). Frank organized the first international symposium on Winold Reiss in Berlin and co-curated exhibitions on Winold Reiss, the Marshall Plan, and Liberation Songs in New York, Nijmegen and The Hague.