Multiplying Vectors in Migration Studies Scholarship on migration in the German-speaking context is avowedly and increasingly prefixed: interdisciplinary, of course, also postmonolingual, postmigrant, transnational, translational, omni- and multidirectional. the pragmatics of heeding lutz koepnick's caution (2012) against satisfying neoliberal impulses in higher education through "prefix research" prove thorny, for many reasons-some alarming and some promising-that the scope of this contribution cannot exhaust. institutionally, as German programs across the United states face funding cuts or elimination, prefixed research that allows cross-appointment and potential for collaborative research becomes less a political choice and more a means of survival. in a less pragmatic vein, as scholarly production suggests and fora in major publications in German studies-including this one-amply attest, migration studies in German-speaking contexts is one of the most significant strands of inquiry that reveal German language, literature and culture to be anything but homogeneous, originary, monolingual, or monocultural. In recent years, research on migration in German-speaking contexts can be described as one of multiplying temporal and canonical vectors. a brief look at the recent history of migration studies in German-speaking contexts places into context recent and continuing work that is realigning and multiplying the directions of translation, literary influence, and conceptual interventions. in her 1989 introduction to a special issue of new German Critique on minority cultures in Germany, azade seyhan lamented the lack of "acknowledgment of the multicultural intervention in established literary scholarship by the growing number of ethnic minorities" (1989, 5). By the early 2000s, pathbreaking monographs by leslie adelson,...