Horst Tonn is a Professor of American Studies at the University of Tübingen. He received his Ph.D. from the Free University Berlin with a dissertation on Chicano Literature. His major research interests are Hispanic American literature and culture, documentary (writing, film, photography), cultural globalization, media representations of war, social movements, and civil rights issues. Before he came to Tübingen in 1996, he taught at the Universities of Mainz/Germersheim, Duisburg, and Erlangen. He was a research fellow at Harvard University and at the University of California, Irvine and he was visiting professor at California State University-Fullerton, the University of Maryland, and Poone University in India. He has written two monographs and co-edited several books in his research areas.