Priscilla Layne is a Ph.D. candidate in literature and culture. She works on a variety of texts from the 20th century, primarily focusing on issues of race and gender. Her research interests include film, popular music, rebellion, social movements, and (post)subculture studies. After receiving her B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago in 2003, Priscilla served as a Fulbright Teaching Assistant in Berlin and researched the left-wing skinhead scene with a grant from the Study Foundation of the Berlin House of Representatives. She also interned as a translator for the Deutsche Welle in Bonn. She has presented papers at Westfälische-Wilhelm-Universität in Münster, the German Studies Assocation and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. In 2008, she and two colleagues won the Susan Sontag Prize for Translation for their translation of Feridun Zaimoglu's Koppstoff: Kanaka Sprak vom Rande der Gesellschaft. She is currently completing her dissertation "The Stranger Within: Black Voices, German Rebels" which looks at the influence of black cultural traffic on postwar representations of rebellion.