Andreas Beer received a PhD in American Studies in 2014 and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Constance, Germany. His research interests include transnational entanglements in antebellum America (especially with Latin America), literary and social practices in contemporary protest movements, and processes of indigenous identification and subalternity in the American hemisphere. His latest publication is (together with Gesa Mackenthun): Fugitive Knowledges. The Preservation and Loss of Knowledges in Cultural Contact Zones (2015).