Dietmar Meinel is a research and teaching assistant at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, in the Department of Anglophone Studies. He has published essays with the
European Journal of American Culture,
NECSUS European Journal for Media Studies, and the
Animation Studies Journal as well as in the essay collection
Rereading the Machine in the Garden (2014). Meinel has co-edited the volume
Black, White, and In-Between (2008) to which he also contributed the essay “White Western: Whiteness and Race Politics from John Wayne to Clint Eastwood.”