Dr. Nancy Nenno, Professor of German at the College of Charleston, has been appointed co-organizer of the Black Diaspora Network of the German Studies Association from 2019 to 2021. A scholar of 20th century German literature and cinema, Dr. Nenno specializes in Black German and Austrian Studies; recent publications by Dr. Nenno include “Elective Paternities: Germans and African Americans in Hugo Bettauer’s Das blaue Mal (1922),” German Studies Review 39.2: 259-77, and “Reading the Schwarz in the Schwarz-Rot-Gold: Black German Studies in the 21st Century.” Transit 10.2 Special Topic: The Future of the Past, guest eds. Susanne Baackmann and Nancy P. Nenno.