Johanna Kardux
Guest
- Name
- Dr. J.C. Kardux
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- j.c.kardux@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2701-4790
Johanna Kardux is a guest at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
Areas of interest
- American literature, 1620 to present
- African-American literature and cultural history
- Migration literature
- Slavery and memory culture
- Trauma and Memory
- American cultural history
Johanna C. Kardux (PhD Cornell University) teaches American literature and culture at Leiden University and is currently chair of the MA programme in North American Studies, as well as coordinator of the minor programme in American Studies. Her current research interests focus on memory and trauma studies, particularly the memorialization of slavery in transatlantic perspective; immigration literature; and post-9/11 literature, film and memorial culture.
She has been a member of The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA)since its founding in Heidelberg in 1998 and has been (elected) Vice-President of MESEA since 2012, after earlier being a Board member in different capacities (Advisory Board 2004-2008; Treasurer 2008-2012). In 2008 she organized a major international MESEA conference in Leiden on “Migration Matters: Immigration, Homelands, and Border Crossings.” Currently she is leading an international research network that is organizing an international conference on the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower, which will be held at Leiden in 2020: “Four-Nation Commemoration: The Mayflower and the Construction and Politics of Public Memory.” She is a member of the Editorial Board of peer-reviewed journal Atlantic Studies: Global Currents and a Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Transnational American Studies.
Selected publications
Kardux, Joke, and Eduard van de Bilt. Newcomers in an Old City: The American Pilgrims in Leiden, 1609-1620. Leiden: Burgersdijk en Niermans. Third revised edition, 2007. Fourth edition forthcoming in 2020.
Davis, Rocio G., Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, and Johanna C. Kardux, eds. Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Art, Media, and Music: Performing Migration. New York: Routledge, 2011.
Kardux, Johanna C., and Doris Einsiedel, eds. and introd. Moving Migration: Narrative Transformations in Asian American Literature. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2010.
The Slave Trade’s Dissonant Heritage: Memorial Sites, Museum Practices, and Dark Tourism. Edited by Alan Rice and Johanna C. Kardux. Special issue Atlantic Studies 9.3 (Sept. 2012): 245-372.
Kardux, Johanna C. “Slavery, Memory, and Citizenship in Transatlantic Perspective.” In Derek Rubin and Jaap Verheul, eds. American Multiculturalism after 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009, 141-60.
Horton, James Oliver, and Johanna C. Kardux. “Slavery and Public Memory in the United States and the Netherlands.” New York Journal of American History 66.2 (Fall-Winter 2005), 35-52.
Kardux, Johanna C. “Monuments of the Black Atlantic: Slavery Memorials in the United States and the Netherlands.” In Heike Raphael, ed. Blackening Europe: The African American Presence. New York: Routledge, 2003, 87-105. Rpt. With Postscriptum in JTAS: Journal of Transnational American Studies 3.1 (2011). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1qn7c59h
Kardux, Johanna C. “Herman Melville and the Mission of Empire.” In Theo D'haen, ed. (Un)Writing Empire. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998, pp. 261-93.
Guest
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Moderne Engelstalige letterkunde
- Kardux J.C. (2023), Red Power: 50 jaar geleden: bezetting Wounded Knee, 27 februari 1973, Geschiedenis Magazine 58(2): 10-14.
- Kardux J.C. (2022), 'A Perpetuall War': 22 maart 1622, Bloedbad in Virginia, Geschiedenis Magazine 57(2): 10-13.
- Kardux J.C. (2022), Dutch cities in global slavery, New West Indian Guide 96(3-4): 332-338.
- Kalogeras Y., Kardux J.C.., Mueller M. & Nyman J. (2021), Introduction. In: Kalogeras Y., Kardux J.C., Mueller M. & Nyman J. (Eds.), Palimpsests in Ethnic and Postcolonial Literature and Culture: Surfacing Histories. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 1-17.
- Kardux J.C. (2021), 1621: West-Indische Compagnie opgericht, Geschiedenis Magazine (4): 8-11.
- Kalogeras Y., .Kardux J.C. Mueller M. & Nyman J. (Eds.) (2021), Palimpsests in Ethnic and Postcolonial Literature and Culture: Surfacing Histories. London: Palgrave MacMillan.
- Kardux J.C., Bilt E.F. van de & Schmidt A. (2020), The Pilgrims as Migrants in Leiden, American Ancestors (Winter): 32-37.
- Bilt E.F. van de, Kardux J.C. & Schmidt A. (2020), The Pilgrims as Migrants in Leiden, 1609-1620, American Ancestors 20(4): 32-37.
- Kardux J.C. (2020), De Pilgrims in Leiden: Migranten op weg naar een nieuwe wereld, 1609-1620-2020, Geschiedenis Magazine 55(5): 8-12.
- Kardux J.C. (2018), Mrs. President: Abigail Adams, Geschiedenis Magazine 53(7): 6-8.
- Kardux J.C. (2018), Review of: Pellar Brian R. (2017), Moby-Dick and Melville’s Anti-Slavery Allegory. American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. European Journal of American Culture 37(3): 301-303.
- Kardux J.C. (2016), "The Trope of the Palimpsest and the Archaeology of Terror in Nadeem Aslam’s Postcolonial 9/11 novel The Wasted Vigil.” International Conference, Society for Multiethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA), Warsaw, Poland. .
- Kardux J.C. (2016), Vergeten slavernij in New York, Geschiedenis Magazine 51(7): 60-63.
- Kardux J.C. (2016), “The Postcolonial Turn in 9/11 Fiction: Thinking Through and Beyond Terror in Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil,” Conference of the European American Studies Association (EEAS) in Constanta, Romania. .
- Kardux J.C. (2015), “Decolonizing Dutch Museums: Commemorative Slavery Exhibits in Amsterdam, 2013-14,” International Conference of the Collegium of African American Research (CAAR), Liverpool, UK. .
- Kardux J.C. (2015), Zwarten bleven erbuiten: Selectieve verzoening na de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog, Geschiedenis Magazine 50(5): 22-26.
- Kardux J.C. (2014), Invited speaker: “Decolonizing Dutch Museums: Colonial Heritage and Civic Memory in Slavery Exhibits in Amsterdam, 2013-14.” International Symposium History and Public Memorialisation and the Slave Trade: Liverpool – Nantes, organized by University of Central Lancashire and the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool. .
- Kardux J.C. (2013), “ Visualizing the ‘invisibilized’ in slavery memorials and museum exhibits”, International Conference of the Collegium of African American Research (CAAR), Atlanta, VS. .
- Kardux J.C. (2013) Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic. By Alan Rice. Liverpool University Press, 2012. Review of: Rice Alan, Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic.. Liverpool Studies in International Slavery no. 3. New West Indian Guide 87(1-2): 139-141.
- Kardux J.C. & Rice A. (Eds.) (2012), . Atlantic Studies.
- Kardux J.C. & Rice A. (2012), Confronting the Ghostly Legacies of Slavery: The Politics of Black Bodies, Embodied Memories, and Memorial Landscapes, Atlantic Studies 9(3): 245-272.
- Kardux J.C. (2012), Slave Heritage and Black Civic Activism: Memorializing the African Burial Ground in New York and the President’s House in Philadelphia, Leidschrift 27(2): 113-130.
- Kardux J.C. (2011), Duister verleden: Toerisme en herdenkingscultuur rond Ground Zero, Geschiedenis Magazine 46(6): 14-19.
- Davis R.G., Fischer-Hornung D. & Kardux J.C. (2011), Introduction: Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art. In: Davis R.G., Fischer-Hornung D. & Kardux J.C. (Eds.), Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art: Performing Migration. New York and London: Routledge. 1-11.
- Kardux J.C. (2011), Postscriptum: Monuments of the Black Atlantic, 2002-2011, Journal of Transatlantic American Studies 3(1): .
- Kardux J.C. (2011), Monuments of the Black Atlantic: Slavery Memorials in the United States and the Netherlands, Journal of Transatlantic American Studies 3(1): .
- Kardux J.C., Davis R.G. & Fischer-Hornung D. (Eds.) (2011), Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art: Performing Migration. New York and London: Routledge.
- Einsiedel D.M.U. & Kardux J.C. (2010), Introduction: On Movements and Two-Way Interactions. In: Kardux J.C. & Einsiedel D.M.U. (Eds.), Moving Migration: Narrative Transformations in Asian American Literature. Berlijn: LIT Verlag. 1-15.
- Kardux J.C. & Einsiedel D.M.U. (Eds.) (2010), Moving Migration: Narrative Transformations in Asian American Literature. Berlijn: LIT Verlag.
- Kardux J.C. (2009), Slavery, Memory, and Citizenship in Transatlantic Perspective. In: Rubin Derek & Verheul Jaap (Eds.), American Multiculturalism after 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 165-179.
- Kardux J.C. (2009), 'Op de schouders van reuzen’: Barack Obama’s dubbele erfenis, Geschiedenis Magazine 44(2): 8-13.
- Bilt E.F. van de & Kardux J.C. (2009), Obama in historisch perspectief: Een presidentschap van verandering en verzoening. Lelystad: IVIO Wereldschool.
- Kardux J.C. (2009), ’Op de schouders van reuzen’: Barack Obama’s dubbele erfenis, Kennislink : .
- Kardux J.C. (2009), Het Beloofde Land: De Pilgrims en de Amerikaanse nationale verbeelding, Geschiedenis Magazine 44(6): 24-28.
- Kardux J.C. (2008), Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism. In: Juang Richard M. & Morrissette Noelle (Eds.), Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. Santa Barbara, CA USA: ABC-Clio. 932-938.
- Kardux J.C. (2008), Katrina and the Dutch Flood of 1953. In: Brown Childs John (Ed.), Hurricane Katrina: Response and Responsibilities. Berkeley, CA USA: North Atlantic Press/Random House. 100-107.
- Kardux J.C. & Bilt E.F. van de (2007), Newcomers in an Old City: The American Pilgrims in Leiden, 1609-1620, 3rd. rev. ed.05. Leiden: Burgersdijk en Niermans.
- Kardux J.C. (2006), 'Verscheurde emoties': Het Nationaal Instituut Nederlands Slavernijverleden en Erfenis, Geschiedenis Magazine 41(8): 48-49.
- Kardux J.C. & Horton James O. (2005), Slavery and Public Memory in the United States and the Netherlands, New York Journal of American History 66(2): 35-52.
- Kardux J.C. & Bilt E.F. van de (2005), Katrina and the Dutch Flood Disaster of 1953. In: Brown Childs John (Ed.), Hurricane Katrina: Response and Responsibilities. Santa Cruz, California: New Pacific Press. 100-107.
- Kardux J.C. & Horton James O. (2004), Slavery and the Contest for National Heritage in the United States and the Netherlands, American Studies International 42(2&3): 51-74.
- Kardux J.C. (2003), Monuments of the Black Atlantic: Slavery Memorials in the United States and the Netherlands. In: Raphael-Hernandez Heike & Gilroy Paul (Eds.), Blackening Europe: The African American Presence. New York: Routledge. 87-105.
- Kardux J.C. (2002), Family values: Uncle Tom's Cabin en de politiek van het huishouden. In: Bilt E.F. van de & Doel H.W. van den (Eds.), Klassiek Amerikaans: Opstellen voor A. Lammers. Leiden: Centrum voor Moderne Geschiedenis. 150-168.
- Bilt E.F. van de & Kardux J.C. (2001), The Reagan Years to the Present. In: Kupiec Cayton M. & Williams P.W. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of American Intellectual and Cultural history, 3 vols.. New York: Scribner's. 195-203.
- Bilt E.F. van de & Kardux J.C. (2001), Newcomers in an Old City: The American Pilgrims in Leiden 1609-1620 (second, revised and expanded edition). Leiden: Burgersdijk & Niermans.
- Kardux J.C. (2001), Tussen heden en verleden. 'Double-consciousness' in Toni Morrsons froman Beloved. In: D'haen Th. & Liebregts P. (Eds.), Tussen twee werelden. Het gevoel van ontheemding in de postkoloniale literatuur. Leiden: Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost Azie. 196-226.
- Kardux J.C. (2000) recensie. Review of: Vos van Steenwijk C. de (2000), Een grand tour naar de nieuwe republiek: Journaal van een reis door Amerika, 1783-1784 no. 2. Hilversum: Verloren. Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 116: 189-190.
- Kardux J.C. (1999), Witnessing the Middle Passage: Trauma and Memory in the Narratives of Olaudah Equiano and Venture Smith and in Toni Morrison's Beloved. In: Diedrich M., Pedersen C. & Tally J. (Eds.), Mapping African America: History, Narrative Formation, and the Production of Knowledge. Hamburg and Münster: LIT Verlag. 147-161.
- Kardux J.C. (1999), In Amerika mag je elke dag een wens doen, Exchange of Affairs: Digitaal Tijdschrift over onderwijssamenwerking tussen Nederland en d 1(2): .
- Kardux J.C. (1998), Herman Melville and the mission of American Empire. In: D'haen Th.L. (Ed.), (Un)Writing Empire. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 261-293.
- Kardux J.C. & Bilt E.F. van de (1998), Newcomers in an old city: The American Pilgrims in Leiden, 1609-1620. Leiden: Burgersdijk en Niermans.
- Kardux J.C. (1997), Bibliography Gloria Naylor, Post-war literatures in English 36(juni): B-3-B-4.
- Kardux J.C. (1997), Bibliography Sylvia Plath, Post-war literatures in English 36(juni): B-3-B-5.
- Kardux J.C. (1995), Moeders met een missie: Amerikaanse vrouwen, 1776-1920. In: Bilt E. van de & Toebes J. (Eds.), Een samenleving op de rails: de Verenigde Staten tussen 1776-1917. Nijmegen: NN. 158-198.
- Kardux J.C. (1995), Frederick Douglass: de ex-slaaf als self-made man, Spiegel Historiael 30: 441-445.
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