susan arndt - Anglophone Literaturen

Curriculum Vitae
(October 2015)
Professor. Dr.
SUSAN ARNDT
Department of English and American Studies
University of Bayreuth
Universitätsstr. 30
95440 Bayreuth
Germany
+49 (921) 55-3559
Email: [email protected]
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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
20102009-2010
2008-2009
2006-2008
2003-2006
1997-2003
2001
1996-1997
1994-1996
EDUCATION
1997
1991-1992
1986-1991
Professor of English and Anglophone Literatures, University of Bayreuth.
Visiting Professor, Department of English and American Studies, Goethe University,
Frankfurt/M.
Associate Professor, Institute of African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin.
Research Fellow, Goethe University, Frankfurt/M. & Humboldt University, Berlin (assoc.).
Research Fellow, Centre for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin.
Research Fellow, Institute of African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin.
Guest Scholar and Lecturer, University of Vienna, Austria.
Senior Research Fellow, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, Oxford.
Associate Lecturer, Institute of African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin.
Ph.D. magna cum laude, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin,
Germany.
M. A., African Studies Program, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London,
UK.
Diploma. With distinction. English and German Studies Program, Humboldt University, Berlin,
Germany.
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND AREAS OF SPECIALISATION
Disciplinary
Transcultural English Studies
Postcolonial and Diaspora Studies
Gender and Queer Studies
Theories & Methodologies
Critical Race & Critical Whiteness Theories
Postcolonial Posthumanism
New Historicism
Regions
Great Britain
African & African Diasporic Fiction (Caribbean; North America)
World Literatures in English
Era/Concepts
Renaissance and Transcultural Shakespeare
Victorian Literature, Colonialism and Memory
Gender/Feminism, Race/Decolonialism and Intersectionality
Intertextuality, Interpretation, Imagination
Futurity, Technologie, Ethik
Migration, Mobilität
Subjektformation, agency und Widerstand/resistance
1 FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND HONORS
2012
2009-2010
2003-2008
2002
2002
2000
1996-1997
1992-1996
1991-1992
Accelerated Premium of University of Bayreuth
Eigene Stelle (German Research Foundation/DFG)
Berlin Program for the Equality of Women in Research and Teaching (Berlin Senate)
Ford Foundation
Institute of International Education
Sokrates-Program
VW Foundation
Hans Böckler Foundation
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPHS
2012
Arndt, Susan. Die 101 wichtigsten Fragen. Rassismus (München: C.H.Beck) (2nd edition,
2015).
Selected review(s):
Mackert, Nina. H-Soz-Kult, 04.04.2013
http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-19303
Newmark, Catherine. Deutschlandradio Kultur. 14. 02. 2013
http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/wessen-haut-ist-eigentlich-hautfarben.950.de.html?dram:article_id=237514
2002
Arndt, Susan. The Dynamics of African Feminism. Defining and Classifying African Feminist
Literatures (Trenton, NJ; Asmara: Africa World Press).
Selected review(s):
Thielmann, Pia. Research in African Literatures 36.2 (205): 156-157
https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/research_in_african_literatures/summary/v036/36.2thielmann.html
2000
Arndt, Susan. Feminismus im Widerstreit. Afrikanischer Feminismus in Gesellschaft und
Literatur (Münster: Unrast).
1998
Arndt, Susan. African Women’s Literature, Orature and Intertextuality. Igbo Oral Narratives
as Nigerian Women Writers’ Models and Objects of Writing Back (Bayreuth: Bayreuth African
Studies).
Selected review(s):
Azodo, Ada Uzoamaka. Research in African Literatures 33.1 (2002) 187-189.
https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/research_in_african_literatures/v033/33.1azodo.ht
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Geoffrey Davis. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 50 (1994): 102-105.
http://www.anglistik.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/fzxw/lidx/1/file/200196
Forthcoming
Arndt, Susan. Die Schwarze Bürgerrechtsbewegung (München: C.H.Beck).
Arndt, Susan. Provincialising Literature. Myths of Whiteness in British Fiction and World
Literatures in English.
Arndt, Susan, Peggy Piesche and Deborah Nyangulu. Future as a Critical Category.
Transcultural Rereadings of Planetary Fiction.
In Preparation Arndt, Susan. Maafa Labour and the entangled Literary Imagination. Representations of
Enslaved Labour and Enslaving Labour in British, US-American and Ghanaian Fiction. 2 EDITED BOOKS
2014
Arndt, Susan and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, eds. Afro-Fictional In(ter)ventions. Revisiting the
BIGSAS-Literature Festival. Bayreuth 2011 – 2013 (Münster: edition assemblage).
2011
Arndt, Susan and Nadja Ofuatey- Alazard, eds. Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht. Ein
Kritisches Nachschlagewerk (Münster: Unrast) (2nd edition 2015).
Selected review(s):
Adeoso, Marie-Sophie. Frankfurter Rundschau (28.07.2011): 31.
Messerschmidt, Astrid. Erziehungswissenschaftliche Review 11.4 (2012).
http://www.klinkhardt.de/ewr/3897715011.html
2007
Arndt, Susan, Eckhard Breitinger and Marek Spitczok von Brisinski, eds. Theatre,
Performance and New Media in Africa (Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Studies).
Selected review(s):
Kerr, David. Research in African Literatures 40.1 (2009): 166-170.
2007
Arndt, Susan and Katrin Berndt, eds. Worlds and Words. African Writers on Literature,
Theatre und Society (Trenton, NJ, Asmara: Africa World Press).
Selected review(s):
Spencer, Lynda Giachnda. African Studies Review 52.1 (2009): 222-224.
2007
Arndt, Susan, Robert Stockhammer and Dirk Naguschewski, eds. Exophonie. AndersSprachigkeit (in) der Literatur (Berlin: Kadmos).
2006
Arndt, Susan and Marek Spitczok von Brisinski, eds. Africa, Europe and (Post)Colonialism:
Racism, Migration and Diaspora in African Literatures (Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Studies).
Selected review(s):
Kathleen Gyssels. Research in African Literatures 39.3 (2008): 216-217.
2005
Arndt, Susan and Katrin Berndt, eds. Kreatives Afrika. SchriftstellerInnen über Literatur,
Theater und Gesellschaft (Wuppertal: Peter Hammer).
Selected review(s):
Schäfer, Rita. iz3w (08.07. 2002)
2005
Maisha Eggers, Grada Kilomba, Peggy Piesche and Susan Arndt, eds. Mythen, Masken und
Subjekte: Kritische Weißseinsforschung in Deutschland (Münster: Unrast) (2nd edition 2009, 3rd
edition 2015).
Selected review(s):
Breger, Claudia. H-Soz-Kult, 29.09.2006, http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-7792
2004
Arndt, Susan and Antje Hornscheidt, eds. Afrika und die deutsche Sprache. Ein Kritisches
Nachschlagewerk (Münster: Unrast) (2nd edition 2009).
Selected review(s):
Schnurer, Jos. socialnet. http://www.socialnet.de/rezensionen/1756.php
2001
Arndt, Susan, Heiko Thierl and Ralf Walther, eds. AfrikaBilder. Studien zu Rassismus in
Deutschland (Münster: Unrast) (2nd edition 2006).
Selected review(s):
Gyssels, Kathleen. Süddeutsche Zeitung (08.07. 2002)
1992
Arndt, Susan et al., eds. Berlin Mainzer Straße: Wohnen ist wichtiger als das Gesetz (Berlin:
BasisDruck).
3 Forthcoming
Arndt, Susan and Mariam Popal, eds. Bayreuth Summer Talks. de Gruyter Spring 2016.
Arndt, Susan and Mariam Popal with the filming team Shirin Assa, Oladapo Ayayi, Weeraya
Donsomsakulkij, Natalie Patterer, Talks n Travel. DVD-Bricolage, Talks n Travel, Spring
2016.
Arndt, Susan and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, eds. Future Africa and Beyond. Visions in
Transition. Special Issue of Journal of the African Literature Association (peer-reviewed).
Spring 2016.
Arndt, Susan, Mariam Popal and Rinaldo Walcott, eds. Specters of Ethics – in the Trails of
Globalization and Futurity. Duke Press, Summer 2016.
In Preparation Arndt, Susan and Weeraya Donsomsakulkij, eds. un*animated, non*human, nature*culture.
Beyond Binarisms - Posthumanism meets Postcolonialism. Arndt, Susan and Peggy Piesche, eds. Technology, Internet and its Effects on Diaspora,
Notions of Race and Conceptions of the Future.
Arndt, Susan and Peggy Piesche, eds. Transcultural Enlightenment and African Diasporic
Legacy. The Case of Anton Wilhelm Amo.
Arndt, Susan, ed. Transcultural Shakespeare. Postcolonial Rereadings of Sources and
Legacies
Arndt, Susan, ed. Knowledge, Technology and GenEt(h)ics. Un/Making Bodies and Global
Future(s)
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
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Arndt, Susan. “Fractal Time, Futurity and the Power of Interpretation. Comparative
Rereadings of Memory and Waiting in the Works of Kayper-Mensah, Samih Al
Qasim and Samuel Beckett.” Journal of the African Literature Association (9.2).
Arndt, Susan. “‘Be free?’ Zukunftsvisionen der Black Civil Rights Movement von
Martin Luther King Jr. bis J. Cole.” Powision Magazine 18.
Arndt, Susan. “Mythen von Afrika. 'Rasse' und Rassismus in der deutschen
Afrikaterminologie.” Aptum. Zeitschrift für Sprachkritik und Sprachkultur 2 (3): 257274.
Arndt, Susan. “Die Archive der Vergangenheit ordnen. Wert und Sinn von Sonderarchiven in
der Offenen Gesellschaft.” Deutschland Archiv 38 (3): 515-522.
Arndt, Susan. “Perspectives on African Feminism. Defining and Classifying African-Feminist
Literatures.” Agenda. Empowering Women for Gender Equity. African Feminisms Two 54: 3144.
Arndt, Susan. “Igbo-in-English: Relexification and Igbo-Lexification in Igbo Women’s
Literature.” Voices. The Wisconsin Review of African Literatures 3: 37-68.
Arndt, Susan. “‘Who is Afraid of Feminism?’ Critical Perspectives on Feminism in Africa and
African Feminism.” Palabres. Femmes et Creations Literaires en Afrique at aux Antilles 3.1/2:
35-61.
Arndt, Susan. “Optimismus und militante Resignation. Strömungen der afrikanischfeministischen Literatur.” iz3w. blätter des informationszentrums dritte welt 242: 36-41.
Arndt, Susan. “Kontinuität und ‚writing back’. Buchi Emecheta und die afrikanische Tradition
der oral literature.” Hard Times 48: 39-42.
4 Forthcoming Arndt, Susan. “Was Caliban drunken? Colonial Power and Resistance in Shakespeare’s The
Tempest.”
Arndt, Susan. “Transcultural Intertextualities. Othello’s Arabian and African Sources.”
Arndt, Susan. “Narrating Maafa. Rereading Defoe and Austen.”
Arndt, Susan. “Trauma and Narration in Fred d’Aguiar’s The Longest Memory.”
Arndt, Susan. “Transcultural English Studies. Visions in Transition.”
Arndt, Susan. “Maafa Labour, Violence and Resistance in the Works of Bernardine Evaristo
and Fred d’Aguiar.”
Arndt, Susan. “What’s Enlightenment got to do with it? Abolitionism and Resistance as Work
in Writings by Olaudah Equiano, Anton Wilhelm Amo, and Frederick Douglas.”
BOOK CHAPTERS
2015
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2012
2012
2011
2011
Arndt, Susan. “Envisioning New Futures. Literary Performances of Intertextuality,
Gender and Race in the Works of Zadie Smith, Pauline Melville and Toni Morrison.”
Dominanzkultur reloaded. Neue Texte zu gesellschaftlichen Machtverhältnissen und
ihren Wechselwirkungen. Iman Attia, Swantje Köbsell und Nivedita Prasad, eds.
Bielefeld: transcript 2015: 311-322.
Arndt, Susan and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard. “Preface.” Afro-Fictional In(ter)ventions.
Revisiting the BIGSAS-Literature Festival, Bayreuth 2011 – 2013. Susan Arndt and
Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, eds. Münster: assemblage: 9-12.
Arndt, Susan. “Introduction: African Conceptualisations of Europe.” Afro-Fictional
In(ter)ventions. Revisisting the BIGSAS-Literature Festival Bayreuth 2011 – 2013.
Susan Arndt and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, eds. Münster: assemblage: 53-58.
Arndt, Susan. “Introduction: Remembering Flash Forward. African Literatures as
Poetics in Motion.” Afro-Fictional In(ter)ventions. Revisisting the BIGSAS-Literature
Festival. Bayreuth 2011 – 2013. Susan Arndt and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, eds.
Münster: assemblage: 186-190.
Arndt, Susan. “Introduction. Intertextuality. Dialogues in Motion.” Afro-Fictional
In(ter)ventions. Revisisting the BIGSAS-Literature Festival. Bayreuth 2011 – 2013.
Susan Arndt & Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, eds. Münster: assemblage: 356-366.
Arndt, Susan. “Rassismus und Wissen.” Sprache - Macht – Rassismus. Gudrun
Hentges et al., eds. Berlin: Metropol: 17-34.
Arndt, Susan. “The Longevity of Whiteness and Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister
Killjoy.” Essays in Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70. A Reader in African Cultural
Studies. Anne Adams, ed. Banbury: Ayebia Clarke: 110-121.
Arndt, Susan. “Rassismus. Zur Geschichte einer europäischen
Herrschaftsideologie.” Afrikabilder. Dokumentation einer Tagungsreihe zum
Afrikadiskurs in den Medien und zum AlltagsRassismus in Deutschland E. Dulko,
M.E. Kaufmann, L. Jansen and M. Weule, eds. Universität Bremen: 50-54.
Arndt, Susan and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard. “Zum Geleit.” Wie Rassismus aus
Wörtern spricht. (K)Erben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache
Susan Arndt and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, eds. Münster: Unrast: 11-17.
Arndt, Susan. “Rassismus.” Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht. (K)Erben des
Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache. Susan Arndt and Nadja OfuateyAlazard, eds. Münster: Unrast: 37-43.
5 2011
2011
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2011
2009
2009
2009
2008
2008
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2007
2007
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2007
Arndt, Susan. “Sprache, Kolonialismus und rassistische Wissensformation.” Wie
Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht. (K)Erben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv
deutsche Sprache. Susan Arndt and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, eds. Münster: Unrast:
121-125.
Arndt, Susan. “Racial Turn.” Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht. (K)Erben des
Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache. Susan Arndt and Nadja OfuateyAlazard, eds. Münster: Unrast: 185-189.
Piesche, Peggy and Susan Arndt. “Weißsein.” Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht.
(K)Erben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache. Susan Arndt and
Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, eds. Münster: Unrast: 192-193.
Arndt, Susan. “Europe, Race and Diaspora.” Afroeurope@n Configurations:
Readings and Projects. Sabrina Brancato, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing: 30-57.
Arndt, Susan. “Myths and Masks of 'Travelling': Colonial Migration and Slavery in
Shakespeare's Othello, The Sonnets and The Tempest.” Anglistentag 2008 Tübingen:
Proceedings. Lars Eckstein and Christoph Reinfandt, eds. Trier: WVT: 213-226.
Arndt, Susan. “Whiteness as Category of Literary Analysis. Racializing Markers and
Race-Evasiveness in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.” Word & Image in Colonial and
Postcolonial Literatures. Amsterdam: Rodopi: 167-189.
Arndt, Susan. “Euro-African Trans-Spaces. Migration, Transcultral Narration and
Literary Studies.” Transcultural Modernities. Elizabeth Bekers, Sissy Helff and
Daniela Merolla, eds. Amsterdam: Rodopi: 103-120.
Arndt, Susan. “Weißsein – zur Genese eines Konzepts. Von der griechischen Antike
zum postkolonialen 'racial turn'.” Theorie und Praxis der Kulturwissenschaften.
Series: Culture Discourse History. Vol. 1. Jan Standke and Thomas Düllo, eds.
Berlin: Logos: 95-129.
Arndt, Susan. “You are not Born White, You Become White. Conceptions of
Whiteness and Africa in German Society and Literature.” African Diasporas:
Ancestors, Migrations and Boundaries. Robert Cancel and Winnifried Woodhull, eds.
Trenton, NJ; Asmara: Africa World Press: 231-251.2008
Arndt, Susan. “Paradigms of Intertextuality. Orature and Writing Back in the
Literature of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo.” The Fiction of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo.
Issues and Perspectives. Patrick Oloko, ed. Lagos: African Cultural Institute: 17-65.
Arndt, Susan. “Afrika und die deutsche Sprache.” Afrika. Europas verkannter
Nachbar. Vol. 2. Hertha Däubler-Gmelin, Ann Kathrin Helfruch, Ekkehard Münzing
and Christian Walther, eds. Frankfurt/M: Peter Lang: 107-126.
Arndt, Susan. “The Racial Turn.’ Kolonialismus, Weiße Mythen und Critical
Whiteness Studies.” Koloniale und postkoloniale Konstruktionen von Afrika und
Menschen afrikanischer Herkunft in der deutschen Alltagskultur. Series: Africa and
Europe. Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters. Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, Sunna
Gieseke and Reinhard Klein-Arendt, eds. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang: 11-26.
Arndt, Susan and Katrin Berndt. “Prologue.” WordMarkets. African Writers on
Literature, Theatre und Society. Susan Arndt and Katrin Berndt, eds. Trenton, NJ;
Asmara: Africa World Press: ix-xii (revised translation of “Prolog”)
Arndt, Susan and Marek Spitczok von Brisinski. “Popular Culture and Media in a
Globalized World. Some Introductory Thoughts”. Theatre, Performance and New
Media in Africa. Susan Arndt, Eckhard Breitinger and Marek Spitczok von Brisinski,
eds. Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Studies: 7-10.
Stockhammer, Robert, Susan Arndt and Dirk Naguschewski.
“Unselbstverständlichkeit der Sprache.” Anderssprachigkeit (in) der Literatur. Susan
Arndt, Dirk Naguschewski and Robert Stockhammer, eds. Berlin: Kadmos: 7-27.
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2005
2005
2005
2004
2004
2003
2001
Arndt, Susan. “Postkoloniales Palimpsest. Igbo-Relexifizierung und Lexemisierung
in der englischsprachigen nigerianischen Literatur.” Anderssprachigkeit (in) der
Literatur. Susan Arndt, Dirk Naguschewski and Robert Stockhammer, eds. Berlin:
Kadmos: 149-164.
Arndt, Susan and Marek Spitczok von Brisinski. “Prologue.” Africa, Europe and
(Post)Colonialism. Racism, Migration and New Diasporas in African Literatures.
Susan Arndt and Marek Spitczok von Brisinski, eds. Bayreuth: Bayreuth African
Studies: 9-11.
Arndt, Susan. “Rereading (Post)Colonialism. Whiteness, Wandering and Writing.”
Africa, Europe and (Post)Colonialism. Racism, Migration and New Diasporas in
African Literatures. Susan Arndt and Marek Spitczok von Brisinski, eds. Bayreuth:
Bayreuth African Studies: 13-79.
Arndt, Susan. “Beyond the Boundaries of Identities and Differences. The Dynamic
Relationship of ‚Race’ and Gender in African Literatures.” Africa, Europe and
(Post)Colonialism. Racism, Migration and New Diasporas in African Literatures.
Susan Arndt and Marek Spitczok von Brisinski, eds. Bayreuth: Bayreuth African
Studies: 139-158.
Arndt, Susan. “Paradigms of an Intertextual Dialogue: 'Race' and Gender in Nigerian
Literature.” Of Minstrelsy and Masks. The Legacy of Ezenwa-Ohaeto in Nigerian
Writing. Christine Matzke, Aderemi Raji-Oyelade and Geoffrey V. Davis, eds.
Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi: 199-221.
Arndt, Susan and Katrin Berndt. “Prolog.” Kreatives Afrika. SchriftstellerInnen über
Literatur, Theater und Gesellschaft.Susan Arndt and Katrin Berndt, eds.Wuppertal: Peter
Hammer:7-11.
Arndt, Susan. “Erfindungen Afrikas. Ein hoffnungsvoll-folgenloser Essay.” Kreatives Afrika.
SchriftstellerInnen über Literatur, Theater und Gesellschaft. Susan Arndt and Katrin Berndt,
eds. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer:12-33.
Arndt, Susan. “Weißsein: Die verkannte Strukturkategorie Europas und Deutschlands.”
Mythen, Masken und Subjekte. Kulturwissenschaftliche Studien zur Kritischen
Weißseinsforschung. Maisha Eggers, Grada Kilomba, Peggy Piesche and Susan Arndt, eds.
Münster: Unrast: 24-29.
Arndt, Susan. “Mythen des weißen Subjekts. Verleugnung und Hierarchisierung von
Rassismus.” Mythen, Masken und Subjekte. Kulturwissenschaftliche Studien zur Kritischen
Weißseinsforschung. Maisha Eggers, Grada Kilomba, Peggy Piesche and Susan Arndt, eds.
Münster: Unrast: 340-362.
Arndt, Susan. “Boundless Whiteness. Whiteness Without Boundaries? Feminism and White
Women in the Mirror of African Feminism and African-Feminist Literature.” Body, Sexuality
and Gender. Versions and Subversions in African Literatures. Dirk Naguschewski and Flora
Veit-Wild, eds. Amsterdam: Rodopi: 157-172.
Arndt, Susan and Antje Hornscheidt. “Worte können sein wie winzige Arsendosen. Rassismus
in Gesellschaft und Sprache.” Afrika und die deutsche Sprache. Ein Kritisches
Nachschlagewerk. Susan Arndt and Antje Hornscheidt, eds. Münster: Unrast: 11-95.
Arndt, Susan. “Kolonialistische Mythen und Weiß-Sein. Rassismus in der deutschen
Afrikaterminologie.” TheBlackBook. Deutschlands Häutungen. edited by:
AntiDiskriminierungsBüro (ADB) Köln von Öffentlichkeit gegen Gewalt (ÖgG) e.V.
/cyberNomads (cbN) Berlin. Frankfurt a.M.: IKO – Verlag für interkulturelle Kommunikation:
91-115.
Arndt, Susan. “Grenzenloses Weiß-Sein. Weiß-Sein ohne Grenzen? Konzeptionen von WeißSein und Feminismus in der afrikanisch-feministischen Literatur.” Fremdes Begehren.
Repräsentationsformen transkultureller Beziehungen. Monika Ehlers, Eva Lezzi and Sandra
Schramm, eds. Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau: 107-120.
Arndt, Susan. “Impressionen. Rassismus und der deutsche Afrikadiskurs.” AfrikaBilder.
Studien zu Rassismus in Deutschland. Susan Arndt, ed. Münster: Unrast:11-68.
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Arndt, Susan. “‚Wer hat Angst vorm Feminismus?’ Feminismus in Afrika und afrikanischer
Feminismus.” Afrikanische Frauen und Kulturelle Globalisierung. Katharina Städtler and
Ursula Trüper, eds. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe: 87-108.
Arndt, Susan. “Applauding a Dangerous‚ Luxury’. Flora Nwapa’s Womanist ReInterpretation of the Ifo About the ‘Handsome Stranger.’” Emerging Perspectives on Flora
Nwapa. Marie Umeh, ed. Trenton, NJ; Asmara: Africa World Press: 205-222.
Arndt, Susan. “Continuation and Writing Back. Igbo Women Writers and Ifo.” Across the
Lines. Intertextuality and Transcultural Communication in the New Literatures in English.
Wolfgang Klooss, ed. Amsterdam – Atlanta, GA: Rodopi: 103-127.
Arndt, Susan. “Buchi Emecheta and the Tradition of Ifo. Continuation and Writing Back.”
Emerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta. Marie Umeh, ed. Trenton, NJ; Asmara: Africa
World Press: 27-56.
Arndt, Susan. “Frauen und Frauenfeindlichkeit in den Märchen der Igbo.” Dichotomie,
Dominanz, Differenz – Geschlechtsspezifische Platzanweisungen in Wissenschaft und Beruf.
Annette Bertams, ed. Weinheim: Deutscher Studienverlag, 249-268. (2nd edition 1996)
Arndt, Susan. “,Und sie traf das Schicksal, das ihr gebührte...’ Frauen in den Erzählungen von
Igbo Frauen.” Rasse-Klasse-Geschlecht. 2. Studien zur feministischen Theorieentwicklung.
Berlin: Trafo, 38-53.
Arndt, Susan. “Dem Rassismus widersprechen. Afrika, Kolonialismus und die
deutsche Sprache.” Postkolonialismus und Sprache. Margarete Jäger, ed. Münster:
Unrast.
Arndt, Susan. “Migration, Rhizomic Identities and the Black Atlantic in Postcolonial Literary
Studies. The Trans-Space as Home in Pauline Melville’s Short Story ‘Eat Labba and Drink
Creek Water.’” Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination. Susanne
Mühleisen, ed. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi.
Arndt, Susan. “Die Zukunft von 1497. Rassismus in genealogischer Perspektive.”
(Trans)Nationale Rassismuskritik: Interdependenz rassistischer Phänomene und
Widerstandsformen. Mera El und Karim Fereidooni, eds. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
Arndt, Susan. “Afrikanische Diasporas zwischen Humanismus, Aufklärung und
Transatlantische Modernen.” Literatur und Transnationalität. Reihe "Handbücher zur
kulturwissenschaftlichen Philologie" (hg. von Claudia Benthien, Ethel Matala de
Mazza und Uwe Wirth). Doerte Bischof und Susanne Komfort-Hein, eds. Berlin: De
Gruyter Verlag.
REFERENCE ARTICLES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS ENTRIES
2011
2009
2004
2002
2002
Arndt, Susan. “Hautfarbe”, “Barbar_in”, “Ethnie”, “Rasse”, “Mohr” (Co-Author),
“Neger_in”, ”blauäugig”, “blaues Blut”, “braun” “Häuptling”, “Hottentotten”,
“illegal”, “indigen”, “Kannibalismus”, “mauscheln”, “Stamm”, Wie Rassismus aus
Wörtern spricht. (K)Erben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache.
Susan Arndt and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, eds. Münster: Unrast.
Arndt, Susan. “Buchi Emecheta”, “Flora Nwapa”, “Ama Ata Aidoo”, “Bessie
Head”, “Ama Ata Aidoo: Changes, “Yvonne Vera: Without a Name”, “Yvonne Vera:
Butterfly Burning”, “Yvonne Vera: The Stone Virgins”, “J.M. Coetzee: Elizabeth
Costello ”, “J.M. Coetzee: Slow Man ”. Ergänzungsband zu Kindlers Neues Literatur
Lexikon. Stuttgart: Metzler.
Arndt, Susan. “Bastard”, “Eingeborene”, “Ethnie” (Co-Author), “Häuptling”,
“Mischling” (Co-Author), “Mohr”, “Mulatte” (Co-Author), “Neger”, “Rasse”,
“Stamm”, Afrika und die deutsche Sprache. Ein Kritisches Nachschlagewerk. Susan
Arndt and Antje Hornscheidt, eds. Münster. Unrast.
Arndt, Susan and Birgit Haehnel “Rassismus.” Metzler Lexikon Gender Studies.
Renate Kroll,ed. Stuttgart: Metzler: 331-332.
Arndt, Susan. “Afrikanischer Feminismus/afrikanisch-feministische Literatur.”
Metzler Lexikon Gender Studies. Renate Kroll, ed. Stuttgart: Metzler: 4-6.
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Arndt, Susan. “Buchi Emecheta.” Metzler Autorinnenlexikon. Ute Hechtfischer,
Renate Hof, Inge Stephan and Flora Veit-Wild, eds. Stuttgart: Metzler:159-161.
Arndt, Susan. “Flora Nwapa.” Metzler Autorinnenlexikon. Ute Hechtfischer, Renate
Hof, Inge Stephan and Flora Veit-Wild, eds. Stuttgart: Metzler: 392-393.
Arndt, Susan. “Buchi Emecheta: The Joys of Motherhood.” Ergänzungsband zu
Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon (21) München: Kindler: 367-369 (revised edition)
Arndt, Susan. “Flora Nwapa: Efuru.” Ergänzungsband zu Kindlers Neues Literatur
Lexikon (22) München: Kindler: 215-(revised edition)
Arndt, Susan. “Der Zeit immer ein Stück voraus: Leben und Werk Flora Nwapas.”
(Epilogue) Flora Nwapa: Efuru. Göttingen: Lamuv: 331-343.
BOOK REVIEWS
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Arndt, Susan. “Im Schatten der Apartheid. Frauen-Rechtsorganisationen und
geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt in Südafrika by Rita Schäfer!” H-Soz-u-Kult, URL:
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2007-1-132. Im Schatten der
Apartheid. Frauen-Rechtsorganisationen und geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt in
Südafrika. Rita Schäfer. Berlin: Lit Verlag 2008.
Arndt, Susan. “Trauma und Literatur. Das Nicht-Erzählbare erzählen – Assia Djebar
und Yvonne Vera by Martina Kopf.” Stichproben (10): 148-152. Trauma und
Literatur. Das Nicht-Erzählbare erzählen – Assia Djebar und Yvonne Vera. Martina
Kopf. Frankfurt/m.: Brandes & Apfel 2005.
Arndt, Susan and Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk. “Mit Deutschland um die Welt. Eine
Kulturgeschichte des Fremden in der Kolonialzeit. by Alexander Honold and Klaus
R. Scherpe.” Weimarer Beiträge 52 (1) 2006: 144-149. Mit Deutschland um die Welt.
Eine Kulturgeschichte des Fremden in der Kolonialzeit. Alexander Honold and Klaus
R. Scherpe. Stuttgart and Weimar: J.B. Metzler 2006.
Arndt, Susan. “Frantz Fanon. Ein Porträt by Alice Cherki.” IWK 2003 (1): 84-87.
Frantz Fanon. Ein Porträt by Alice Cherki. Hamburg: Nautilus 2002: 84-87.
Arndt, Susan and Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk. “Unauslöschliche Spuren. LiteraturNobelpreisträger Wole Soyinka erinnert an Afrikas Kolonialerbe und fordert
Wiedergutmachung von Europa” Tagesspiegel 27.8. 2001: 9. Die Last des Erinnerns.
Was Europa Afrika schuldet – und was Afrika sich selbst schuldet. Wole Soyinka.
Düsseldorf: Patmos Verlag
Arndt, Susan. “'Flackernde Kerzen'. Nigeria in der Literatur von Toyin Adewale.”
iz3w 244 (April 2000): 42. Flackernde Kerzen. Zwanzig Geschichten aus Nigeria.
Toyin Adewale. Stuttgart: Schmetterling Verlag 1999:
Arndt, Susan. “Die Literatur Schwarzafrikas. Ein Lexikon der Autorinnen und
Autoren by Holger Ehling and Peter Ripken.” Peripherie 69/70: 225 – 228. Die
Literatur Schwarzafrikas. Ein Lexikon der Autorinnen und Autoren. Holger Ehling
and Peter Ripken. München: C.H. Beck 1997.
INTERVIEWS with/REPORTS about Susan Arndt
2015
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“Politcal Correctness. Was darf man noch sagen?” Nürnberger Nachrichten. JeannePierre Ziegler. 21. September 2015: 8.
“Dunkles Deutschland. Helles Pack.“ Hessischer Rundfunk 2. Der Tag. Florian
Schwinn. (7. September 2015). http://www.hronline.de/website/radio/hr2/mediaplayer.jsp?mkey=56882736&rubrik=77493
“Anti-Rassismus ist Schwerstarbeit. Interview mit Susan Arndt.“ Lars Neuenfeld
Chemnitzer Stadtmagazin (26. August 2015)
http://www.371stadtmagazin.de/371magazin/items/Interview_mit_susan_arndt_zu_sp
rache_und_rassismus.html
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“Afrikanische Träume. Konferenz in Bayreuth.” Hubert Spiegel. Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung (13. Juni 2015. 134): 18.
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/afrikanistenkonferenz-zum-ersten-malin-europa-13644344-p2.html?printPagedArticle=true#pageIndex_3
2015
“Die Zukunft beginnt in Afrika. Wie die Uni Bayreuth einen Kontinent neu versteht.”
Jonathan Fischer. Süddeutsche Zeitung (19. Januar 2015): 13.
https://jonathanfischer.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/683/
2013
“Zukunft Afrika. Visionen im Umbruch – Academy of Advanced African Studies in
Bayreuth gegründet.” Echt Oberfranken (16): 42-43.
“Unbewusst ist Jeder Ein Rassist.” Nordbayrischer http://www.nordbayerischerkurier.de/nachrichten/unbewusst-ist-jeder-ein-rassist_145106 April.
“Rasse im Gesetz.” deutschlandradio Kultur, May.
“Wie Deutsche Afrika Sehen.” http://www.dw.de/wie-deutsche-afrika-sehen/a16831788>May.
“Nachruf Prof. Eckhard Breitinger. Gespräch mit Susan Arndt.” Nordbayrischer
Kurier, August.
“Gesicht des Tages.” Nordbayrischer Kurier, June.
“Das BIGSAS Festival afrikanischer und afrikanisch-diasporischer Literaturen.”
Bayrischer Rundfunk, June.
“Kritische Weißseinsforschung in Deutschland.” Lorettas Leselampe.
https://www.freie-radios.net/15497
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INTERVIEWS conducted by Susan Arndt
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Arndt, Susan. “African Gender Trouble and African Womanism. An Interview with
Chikwenye Ogunyemi and Wanjira Muthoni.” Signs 25(3): 709-726.
Arndt, Susan. “African Perspectives on Feminism and African Feminism.” ANA
Review (6) (October-December): 35.
Arndt, Susan. “Of Womanism and Bearded Women. An Interview with Chikwenye
Okonjo Ogunyemi und Wanjira Muthoni.” ANA Review (2) (October-December): 10.
Arndt, Susan. “Womanism’ und bärtige Frauen.” LiteraturNachrichten (55)
(October-December): 10-12.
Arndt, Susan and Mariam Popal in cooperation with Weeraya Donsomsakulkij and
Nathalie Patterer. Summer Talks with Rinaldo Walcott, Hakim Adi, Adbi Osman,
Anne Adans, Kien Nghi Ha and Nabil Barham. Documentary and Working Papers.
2015-2016.
OTHER WRITINGS
2015
2014
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Arndt, Susan. “Kants ganz anderer Kontinent.“ taz 9./10. Mai 2015: 27.
http://www.bayreuth-academy.uni-bayreuth.de/de/academy/Presse/Kants-ganzanderer-Kontinent---TAZ-Artikel-von-Prof_-Susan-Arndt/index.html
Arndt, Susan. “Wenn Rassismus aus Worten spricht.” Wenn Rassismus aus Worten
spricht. Frage, Kontroversen, Perspektiven. Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der Juden in
Deutschland e.V. Materialien (185): 15-22.
Arndt, Susan. “Ersatzdiskurse. Von, Stamm’ und, Rasse’ zu, Ethnie’.” Von
Trommlern und Helfern. Beiträge zu einer nicht-rassistischen
entwicklungspolitischen Bildungs- und Projektarbeit. Berlin u.a.; Berliner
entwicklungspolitischer Ratschlag e.V: 8-11 (2nd edition Develop-mental Turn. Neue
Beiträge zu einer rassismuskritischen Bildungs- und Projektarbeit, Berlin: BER
(Berliner entwicklungspolitischer Ratschlag):18 – 21.
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Arndt, Susan. “Im Spiegel der Geschichte”. migrazine.at.
http://migrazine.at/artikel/im-spiegel-der-geschichte. (November-December).
Arndt, Susan. “Im Spiegel der Geschichte. Wer Rassismus bekämpfen will, muss
auch in die Vergangenheit blicken.” an.schläge. Das feministische Magazin.
November : 15-18.
Arndt, Susan. “Kritische Distanz. Konzepte des afrikanischen Feminismus in
Theorie und Literatur.” Feminismen. Transnational, postkolonial, queer. Special
issue: frauen solidarität 100 (2): 10-11.
Arndt, Susan. “Weißsein und Kritische Weißseinsforschung.”, Interkultureller Rat
gegen Rassismus, ed.: Internationale Wochen gegen Rassismus: 75-77.
Arndt, Susan. “Erinnerungsarbeit, Kolonialismus und Sprache. Was wir reden, ist
wie wir denken.” afrikapost. Magazin für Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur(1): 20-21.
Arndt, Susan. “Spezialarchive als Norm.” Trajekte. 10 (5): 44-50.
Arndt, Susan. Mitarbeit an Anke Poenicke, ed. Afrika realistisch darstellen:
Diskussionen und Alternativen zur gängigen Praxis - Schwerpunkt Schulbücher.
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Reihe: Zukunftsforum Politik, Bonn: Adenauer Stiftung
(55). 120 Pages.
Arndt, Susan. “Jemand muss eine andere Geschichte schreiben. Der Schriftsteller
Chinua Achebe wird am Sonntag mit dem Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels
ausgezeichnet.” Die Welt: 28 (October).
Arndt, Susan. “Weiß-Sein als Konstruktion des Rassismus und als Kategorie.” in:
Chancengleichheit für Frauen in Forschung und Lehre. Berliner Programm. Beiträge.
Berlin: 169-178.
INVITED SCHOLARY PRESENTATIONS (Public Lectures, Conferences, Workshops,
Literature Festivals)
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International Symposium: “Postcolonial Shakespeare. Origins and Legacies of a
Global Narrative.” Goldsmith College/SOAS (February)
“Shakespeare’s Legacy, or: How to study Entangled Literatures?” Ruskin University,
Cambridge (October)
“Silencing and Re-Interpretation, or: Why care about Reading Shakespeare’s “Dark
Lady” as a Black Woman.” London School of Economics (February).
“Postcolonial Rereadings of British Literature: William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe,
and Zadie Smith.” London School of Economics. (February).
“White Skin. What Mask? Paradigms of Presenting Whiteness in Literature.”
Institute of African Studies, University of Leiden (November).
“Paradigms of African Feminist Literatures.” University of Vienna (May).
“Criticizing the Model: Igbo Women Writers and Ifo.” St. Antony’s College, Oxford,
UK (October).
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Public Lecture, “Rassismus. Die Zukunft einer langen Geschichte” [Racism. The
Future of a Long History], Universität Dresden, Vorlesungsreihe “Rassismus” im
Rahmen von studium generale, University of Dresden, July.
Lecture, “’Be free?’ Visions of the Future, the Black Civil Rights Movement and the
Digital.” Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, University of Bayreuth,
July.
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Lecture, “Knowledge as Commodity. Whiteness, Gender, Religion.” Rainbow
Intersection Berlin org. by Deutsche Afrika-Stiftung, Berlin, October.
Lecture, “Diskriminierung und Diversität in Schulbüchern.” [Discrimination and
Diversity in text books], Cornelsen Verlag, Berlin, September.
Keynote Lecture, “Postcolonial Narrations.” International Conference “Postcolonial
Narrations”, Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M., September.
Keynote Lecture, “Die Zukuft unserer Sprache liegt in ihrer Vergangenheit.” [The
Future of Language, and: What has the Past to do with it?] Teaching Day at School,
Bayreuth/Erfurt, February.
Lecture, “Zusammenwirken von Sprache und Diskriminierung.” [Language and
Discrimination.] International Conference “Perspektivwechsel”, Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der
Juden in Deutschland (ZWST e.V.), Weimar, November.
Lecture , “Rassismus. Geschichte und Gegenwart.” [Racism. History and Present.]
University Erlangen, April.
Opening Lecture, “Rassismus in der Migrationsgesellschaft.” [Racism and
Migration.] International Conference, International Day against Racism, Mayor of
Bielefeld, March.
Lecture, “Shakespeares Sonette, Othello und The Tempest. Transkulturalität in
literaturhistorischer Perspektive.” .” [Racism and Migration.]Katholischer
Hochschulkreis, Bayreuth, November.
Inaugural Lecture, “LiteraturWelten. Transkulturelle Anglistik und der Racial Turn.”
[Worlds of Literature. Transcultural English Studies and the Racial Turn.] University
of Bayreuth, October.
Keynote Lecture, “Rassismus WiderSprechen.” [Speaking Up against Racism.]
International Conference “Afrikabilder: Zum Afrika-Diskurs in deutschen Medien –
Eine Tagungsreihe zum Alltagsrassismus in Deutschland” (BIGSAS), Bremen, June.
Lecture, “Sprache ist Denken und Denken ist Sprache.” [Thinking Language.] Green
Party, Munich, May.
Lecture and Reading about Racism and Language, International Weeks against
Racism, AMIGRA, Munich, March.
Keynote Lecture, “The Longevity of Whiteness: Critical Whiteness Studies and
British Fiction.” Workshop of the DFG-Network of Black Diasporas in Germany,
Berlin, January.
Panelist, “Wort und Wirklichkeit - Kann Sprache diskriminieren?” [Words and
Realities. Do words discriminate against?] German Government: Bundeszentrale für
politische Bildung, Bonn, May.
Keynote Lecture, “Rassismus in Gesellschaft und Sprache.” .[Racism in Society and
Language.] Conference “Rassismus heute”, Munich, December.
Keynote Lecture, “Rassismus in Gesellschaft und Sprache.” Conference “Rassismus
in Gesellschaft und Sprache”, Munich, November.
Lecture, “The Longevity of Whiteness. Colonial Myth, Social Position and Critical
Category of Analysis.” Think Tank on Identity Politics, Free University of Berlin,
April.
Lecture, “Rassismus in der deutschen Sprache.” .[Racism and/in the German
Language.] Lecture Series at Humboldt-University, Berlin, November.
Keynote Lecture, “Über Rassismus zu sprechen, heißt, sich ihm zu stellen.” .[Talking
about Racism as Resistance.] International Conference “Rassismus, Wissen(schaft)
und Universität”, Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin, June.
Lecture, “Diskursives Weißsein. Antike, Renaissance, Aufklärung – und moderne
Selbstverständnisse in Europa.” [Whiteness in Antiquity, Renaissance and
Enligtenment.] University of Hamburg, April.
Lecture, “Mythen von Afrika. 'Rasse' und Rassismus in der deutschen
Afrikaterminologie.” [Myths of Africa. Race and Racism in the German Language.]
Otto-Suhr-Insitut, Free University of Berlin, November.
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Lecture, “Critical Whiteness Studies and Critical Occidentalism. Rereading Africa.”
Studientag Afrika, University of Greifswald, October.
Lecture, “Rassistische Afrikaterminologie im Wandel?” [Transformations in German
conceptualisations of Language.] Afrika Normal, University of Hamburg, April.
Lecture, “Mythen von Afrika. ‚Rasse’ in der deutschen Afrikaterminologie.”
AfricAvenir, Otto-Suhr-Institut, Free University of Berlin, February.
Lecture, “Kritische Weißseinsforschung und Kritischer Okzidentalismus. Kritische
Perspektiven auf Kant und Hegel.” [Critical Whiteness Studies and Critical
Occidentalism. Critical Perspectives on Kant and Hegel.], Institute of German
Studies, University of Magdeburg, December.
Lecture, “Kolonialistische Mythen und Weißsein. Rassismus in der deutschen
Afrikaterminologie.” [Whiteness and Colonialist Myths.], Catholic Academy of
Hamburg, November.
Lecture, “Von der biologistischen Kategorie ‚Rasse’ zu den kritischen
Analysekategorien Rasse und Weißsein.” [From ‚race’ (as biologistic construct) to
race and whiteness as critical categories of analysis.] International Colloqium.
“'Rasse'. Historische und Diskursive Perspektiven’”, Centre for Literary Research,
Berlin, November.
Lecture, “Kritischer Okzidentalismus.” [Critical Occidentalism.], Centre for Literary
Research, Berlin, July.
Lecture, “Weißsein, Mythen und Literatur.” [Whiteness, Myths and Literature.],
Center for Literary Research (FSP I), February.
Lecture, “Gcina Mhlope: Gender und Performanz.” [Gcina Mhlope: Gender and
Performance.] Closing Event of the V, International Literature Festival, Berlin,
September.
Invited Lecturer, “Antje Krog und die Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” [Antje
Krog and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.] Opening Event of the IV,
International Literaturfestival, Berlin, September.
Lecture, “White Skin. What Mask? Gendered Whitenesses in African Narratives.”
Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, January.
Keynote Lecture, “Schrift, Kultur und Kolonialismus.” [Scripts, Culture and
Colonialism.] International Workshop “Writing and (Post-)Colonialism”, Center for
Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin, November.
“Europa in der Perspektive der afrikanischen Literatur.” [African Fictional
Representations of Europe.] Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin,
October.
Keynote Lecture, “AfrikaBilder in Medien, Sprache und Literatur.” [Images of Africa
in Media, Language and Literature.] International Conference “Global Partnerships,
Language and Media”, NLI, Bad Bevensen, June.
Keynote Lecture, “Weißsein als Konstruktion des Rassismus und Kategorie.”
[Whiteness as Construct and Category.] Workshop “Representations of Whiteness
and Blackness in Film”, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin, April.
Lecture, “Paradigms of Intertextual Dialogue. 'Race' and Gender in Nigerian
Literature.” Institut für Neue Englischsprachige Literaturen und Kulturen, Johann
Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/M., February.
Lecture, “Frauenliteratur—ein gültiges Paradigma für Literatur aus Afrika?”
[Women’s Literature – A valid Paradigm for/in African Studies?] Workshop “African
Literature in Germany”, Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin, February.
Keynote Lecture together with Eske Wollrad, “Critical Whiteness-Studies und
Gender aus transdisziplinärer Perspektive.” [Critical Whiteness Studies and Gender in
transdisciplinary perspective.] Workshop “Whiteness and Gender”, Humboldt
University, February.
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“Chinua Achebe –Weltliteratur aus Nigeria.” [Chinua Achebe – World Literature
made in Nigeria.] Event to mark Chinua Achebe’s acceptance of the Peace Prize of
the German Book Trade, Heinrich Böll Foundation and Center for Literary and
Cultural Research, Berlin, October.
Lecture, “'Die Last des Erinnerns.' Kolonialismus und Afrikabilder in der deutschen
Gesellschaft.” [The Burden of Memory. Colonialism and Conceptualisations of
Africa.] Workshop on the occasion of Hanna Behrend’s 80th birthday, “'Politisch
Lied–ein garstig Lied?' Zur Aktualität eines alten Streites”,
Gesellschaftswissenschaftliches Forum e.V. and the Center for Interdisciplinary
Women’s Research at the Humboldt University, Berlin, September.
Lecture, “Von Nana Asma’u zu Calixthe Beyala: 200 Jahre Frauenliteratur in
Afrika.” [Nana Asma’u and Calixthe Beyala 200 years of Women’s Literature in
Africa.] University of Münster, January.
Lecture, “Afrikanischer Feminismus in Gesellschaft und Literatur–Feminismus im
Widerstreit.” [African Feminism in Literature and Society.] Frauenkultur Leipzig,
November.
Lecture, “Weiß-Sein und der Feminismus-Diskurs in Afrika. Weiße Frauen in der
afrikanisch-feministischen Literatur.” [Whiteness and Feminism as Discourses in
Africa.] International Conference “Fremdes Begehren–Repräsentationsformen
transkultureller Beziehungen”, University of Potsdam, December.
“'Stamm' und 'Sudann.'. Afrika in der Terminologie deutscher Schulbücher.” [Africa
and Terminologies in German Textbooks.] Workshop “Das Afrikabild in deutschen
Schulbüchern”, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Wendgräben, October.
Lecture, “'Things Fall Apart'–Afrikanische Literatur und Befreiungsbewegung in
Afrika.” [Things Fall Apart – African Literature and Independence Movements in
Africa.] Tour of the Exhibition Short Century, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, July.
Lecture, “Feminismus im Widerstreit. Afrikanischer Feminismus in Gesellschaft und
Literatur.” [Resistance and Feminism.] Workshop “Equal Rights”, “Diakonisches
Werk”, Magdeburg, April.
Keynote Lecture, “Afrikanische Schriftstellerinnen und afrikanischer Feminismus.”
[African writers and Feminism.] Africanissima Conference, Protestant Academy Bad
Boll, October.
Lecture, “Frauenliteratur in Afrika: Ein Überblick.” [Women’s Literature in Africa.]
Lecture Series “Afrika gibt es nicht”, Marburg, June.
Lecture, “'Ich bin keine Feministin, aber ich denke feministisch'. Antifeministische
Ressentiments in Afrika versus afrikanischer Feminismus.” [I am not a feminist, but I
do think feministically.] Center for Interdisciplinary Women’s Research at the
Humboldt University, Berlin, February.
“Frauenräume. Transformationsprozesse und Geschlechterverhältnisse. Tradition,
Modernisierung und Moderne aus dem Blickwinkel des afrikanischen Feminismus.”
[Women’s Rooms of their own.] Colloquium “African Modernities”, Institute of
African Studies in Humboldt University, Center for the Modern Orient, Institute for
Ethnology, Free University of Berlin, June.
Invited Lecturer, “Kontinuität und 'Writing Back': Das ambivalente Verhältnis der
Igbo-Autorinnen zu den Märchen ihrer literarischen Mütter.” [Continuity and Writing
Back.] Africa Colloquium, Humboldt University, Berlin, January.
“Flora Nwapa und die Igbo Literaturtradition.” [Flora Nwapa and Igbo Literature.]
Workshop “Rasse, Klasse und Geschlecht”, Hans Böckler Foundation, Tutzing,
November.
14 PROFESIONAL CONFERENCES (Panel paper presentations)
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“The Longevity of Whiteness. Colonial Myth, Social Position and Critical Category
of Analysis.” International Conference “Etre noir et allemande”, Strasbourg,
November.
“The White Spot of Western Feminisms. Conceptions of Whiteness in AfricanFeminist Literatures.” Annual Meeting of the European Association of Scholars of
Africa (AEGIS), School of Oriental and African Studies, London, July.
“White Myths, What Masks? The 'Racial Turn' and Conceptions of Whiteness in
Literatures from Africa.” Founding Conference of African Studies Oxford, St.
Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK, June.
“You Are Not Born White, You Become White: Conceptions of Whiteness and
Africa in German Society and Literature.” Annual Conference of the African
Literature Association, San Diego, USA, April.
“Whiteness and the Discourse of Feminism. The Dynamic Relationship of 'Race' and
Gender in African-Feminist Literatures.” Third Women Africa and the African
Diaspora (WAAD), Antananarivo, Madagascar, October.
“Race and Gender in the Works of Frantz Fanon, Ferdinand Oyono and Calixthe
Beyala.” Annual Convention of the Society for New English Literatures, Aachen and
Liege, Germany and Belgium, June.
“Beyond the Boundaries of Identities and Differences. The Dynamic Relationship of
'Race' and Gender in African Literatures.” Annual Convention of the African
Literature Association, Lawrence, USA, April.
“Feminism and Africa. Feminisms in African Literature? On the Attempt to Define
and Classify African Feminist Literatures.” Annual Convention of the African
Literature Association, East Lansing, USA, April.
“Love and Marriage in Igbo-Literature: The Motif of Self-Determined Choice of
Marriage Partner in the Course of Igbo (Literary) History.” Annual Convention of the
African Literature Association, Columbus/Ohio, USA, March.
“Buchi Emecheta and the Tradition of Ifo. Continuation and 'Writing Back'.” Annual
Convention of the African Literature Association, Accra, Ghana, March.
“Concepts of 'Tradition' and 'Modernity' in the Novels of West African Women
Writers.” HETE Conference, Stafford, UK, March.
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“Stuart Hall and Karen Barad. Postcolonial Rereadings of Posthumanist Approaches.”
International Symposium: “Stuart Hall’s Legacy for Thinking Tomorrows
Planetarily. Representation, Language and Postcoloniality in Posthumanism and
Beyond. Workshop in Honour of Stuart Hall”, University of Bayreuth, July.
“Fractal Time, Futurity and the Power of Interpretation. Comparative Rereadings of
in the Works of Kayper-Mensah, Samih Al Qasim and Samuel Beckett.” International
Annual Conference of the African Literature Association: “Future Africa and
Beyond. Visions in Transition”, University of Bayreuth, June.
“Futurity in the Work of Ama Ata Aidoo. Feminist/Womanist Visions in Transition.”
International Annual Conference of the African Literature Association: “Future
Africa and Beyond. Visions in Transition”, University of Bayreuth, June.
Opening Lecture, “Future Africa and Beyond. Visions in Transition.” 5th BIGSAS
Festival of African and African Diasporic Literature on, University of Bayreuth, June.
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Opening Lecture, “Whose Future? Germany and the Black Atlantic.” International
Annual Conference of the African Literature Association: “Future Africa and
Beyond. Visions in Transition”, University of Bayreuth, June.
“Transcultural Intertextualities. Rereading Othello’s Ancestors and Heirs.”
International Symposium dedicated to Michael Steppat and with Paul Werstine on
“Knowing Shakespeare. Manuscripts, Intertextuality, Fashion.” University of
Bayreuth, January.
Opening Lecture, “1884 – 1904 – 1914. Literatures and/of Memory.” 4th BIGSAS
Festival of African and African-diasporic Literature, Bayreuth, June.
Opening Lecture, “Intertextuality. Dialogues in Motion.” 3rd BIGSAS Festival of
African and African Diasporic Literature, Bayreuth, June.
Opening Lecture, “Remembering Flash-Forward.” 2nd BIGSAS-Festival of African
and African-diasporic Literatures, Bayreuth, June.
Opening Lecture, “African Conceptualisations of Europe.” 1st BIGSAS Festival of
African and African Diasporic Literatures”, Bayreuth, May.
“Migration, Rhizomic Identities and the Black Atlantic in Postcolonial Literary
Studies. The Trans-Space as Home in Pauline Melville's Short Story ‘Eat Labba and
Drink Creek Water’.” Annual Conferece of the Association of New Literatures in
English, Bayreuth, May.
“Postcolonial Perspectives on Travelling in Elizabethan and Jacobean England:
Colonial Migration and Slavery in Shakespeare’s Othello, Sonnets, and The
Tempest.” Anglistentag, Tübingen, October.
“Das Weißsein des Europäers und der Europäerin. Historische Perspektiven auf
(literarische) Stationen einer europäischen Erfindung.” [Whiteness and Europe.]
International Conference “Der Europäer. Ein Konstrukt – Wissensbestände und
Diskurse”, Humboldt University, September.
“Resituating Europe, the Diaspora and Literary Categories.” 2nd International
Interdisciplinary Conference on Black European Studies in Transnational Perspective,
Free University of Berlin, July.
“Theorien zu Differenz und Herrschaftsverhältnissen in der griechischen
Philosophie.” Workshop, Berliner Programm zur Förderung der Chancengleichheit
für Frauen in Forschung und Lehre, Arbeitskreis “Gender Studies in Soziologie,
Philosophie und Kunst”, Berlin, June.
“African Studies in Germany.” International Conference: “Transcultural Modernities.
Narrating Africa in Europe,” Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/M, June.
“Transcultural Europe. African Diasporas and Narration.” International Conference
“Transcultural Modernities. Narrating Africa in Europe,” Johann Wolfgang Goethe
University, Frankfurt/M, June.
“Conceptions of Whiteness in Literatures from and about Africa (Habilitation): An
Outline.” International Conference, “Transcultural Modernities. Narrating Africa in
Europe”, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/M, June.
“White Myths and the 'Racial Turn'. Rereading J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace.” Annual
Conference of the Association of New Literatures in English “Word and Image”,
May.
“Der 'Racial Turn'. 'Rasse' und Weißsein als kritische Wissens- und
Analysekategorien.” [Thed Racial Turn.] International Colloqium, “'Rasse'.
Historische und Diskursive Perspektiven’”, Center for Literary and Cultural
Research, Berlin, November.
“(De-)Colonisation and the Linguistic Palimpsest. Igbo-in-English in the Writings of
Igbo Women Authors.” International Colloquium “Exo-Phonie. Anders-Sprachigkeit
(in) der Literatur” Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin, January.
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“Weiße Mythen und literarische Konzeptionen von Weißsein.” [White Myths and
Literary Conceptualisations of Whiteness.] International Conference “Colonialism
and Post-Colonialism in Africa”, Königswinter, October.
“Weiß-Sein und die Literatur. Paradigmen der Markierung.” [Whiteness, Literature
and Marking.] Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin, July.
“Weiß-Sein, Roland Barthes la vaccine und die afrikanisch-feministische Literatur.”
[Whiteness, Rolan Barthes and African-feminist Fiction.]Workshop “Berliner
Programm zur Förderung der Chancengleichheit für Frauen in Forschung und Lehre”,
Berlin, June.
“Weiß-Sein als Konstruktion des Rassismus und Kategorie.” [Whiteness and
Racism.] Workshop on “Ethnicity, Migration, Interculturality und Tranfer of
Cultures”, Berliner Programm zur Förderung der Chancengleichheit für Frauen in
Forschung und Lehre, Berlin, May.
“Boundless Whiteness. Whiteness without Boundaries? Feminism and White Women
in the Mirror of African Feminism and African Women’s Literature.” International
Conference “Versions & Subversions”, Humboldt University, May.
“Weiß-Sein und der Feminismus-Diskurs in Afrika. Weiße Frauen in der afrikanischfeministischen Literatur.” [Whiteness and Feminism.] International Conference
“Fremdes Begehren–Repräsentationsformen transkultureller Beziehungen”,
University of Potsdam, December.
“Identitäten und Differenzen im Widerstreit. Das dynamische Verhältnis der
sozialpolitischen Kategorien 'race' und gender in der afrikanischen Literatur.”
[Identity meets Difference.] Annual Convention of the Association of Scholars of
African Studies, Leipzig, April.
“'Who is Afraid of Feminism?' Vom Versuch einer Definition und Klassifikation
afrikanisch-feministischer Literaturen.” [Classifying African-feminist Writing.]
Annual Convention of the Association of Scholars of African Studies, Bayreuth,
October.
“Another Dimension of Rushdie’s 'Writing Back': Buchi Emecheta’s Intertextual
Dialogue with Ifo.” Annual Convention of the Society for New Literatures in English,
Trier, September.
“Dekolonisation und 'Writing Back' in der afrikanischen Literatur.” [Decolonisation
and Writing Back.] Workshop “Rasse, Klasse und Geschlecht, Hans Böckler
Foundation, Tutzing, November.
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Panel Discussion, “Africa @ Germany. Exchange Programs for an Entangled
Future.” University of Bayreuth with Tulia Ackson, Susan Arndt, Georg Klute and
Peter Simatei (Chair: Astrid Grunack), Bayreuth, June.
Panel Discussion, “Postcolonial Futures and the Literary Imagiantion.” Haus der
Kulturen der Welt with Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Binyawanga Wainaina, Berlin, May.
Lecture, “Theoreme von 'Rasse' und Differenz in der Antike.” [Race and Antiquity.]
Habilitantenkreis, Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin, May.
Lecture, “Weißsein und Gender in J.M. Coetzees Roman Disgrace.” [Whiteness and
Gender in Coetzee’s Disgrace.] Center for Literary Research, Habilitantenkreis,
Berlin, July.
Lecture, “Mythen des Weißseins und von Geschlecht. Gesellschaft und Literatur.”
[Myths of Whiteness.] Research Colloquium Critical Whiteness Studies, February.
Lecture, “Strömungen der afrikanisch-feministischen Literatur.” [Versions of
African-feminist Literature.] Research Colloquium African Literature at the
Humboldt University, Berlin, December.
17 COURSES TAUGHT
UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH
2015- 2016
2015- 2016
2015- 2016
2015- 2016
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
2013-2014
2013-2014
2013-2014
2013-2014
2013-2014
2013-2014
2012-2013
2012-2013
2012-2013
2012-2013
2012
2012
2012
2012
2011-2012
2011-2012
2011-2012
“Whose Planet? Whose Futures? Postcolonial Literary Studies meets Posthumanism”
(together with Weeraya Donsomsakulkij), Seminar, BA, teacher program (LA) and MA
levels, Winter Semester.
“Beyond Sources and Intertextualities. Transcultural Shakespeare and Entangled Nations”,
Seminar, BA, LA and MA levels, Winter Semester.
“The Future of Literary Studies. Recent Trends and its Visions”, Seminar, MA and PhD levels,
Winter Semester.
“Introduction to English and American Literary Studies”, Seminar, (Shirin Assa/Tutorial), PS,
BA, LA and MA levels, Winter Semester.
“Survey of British Literature: In Seven League-Boots from Chaucer to Zadie Smith”, (Weeraya
Donsomakulkij/Tutorial), Lecture, BA, LA and MA levels, Summer Semester.
“Übung für Examenskandidat*innen im Lehramtsstudiengang Englisch”, Übung and LA levels,
Summer Semester.
“Transcultural English Studies - Narrations that matter”, Seminar, MA and PhD levels,
Summer Semester.
“Transcultural English Studies - Theories, Readings and Challenges”, Seminar, MA and PhD
levels, Summer Semester.
“Survey of British Literature: In Seven League-Boots from Chaucer to Zadie Smith”, Seminar,
BA, LA and MA levels, Summer Semester.
“Survey of British Literature: In Seven League-Boots from Chaucer to Zadie Smith”, Lecture
BA, LA and MA levels, Summer Semester.
“Cultural and Literary Theory: Introduction for Advanced Students”, Seminar, LA and
MA levels, Winter Semester.
“Research Seminar: Challenging the Challenges of Literary Studies”, Seminar, LA and MA
levels, Winter Semester.
“Renaissance English Literature: Texts and Adaptations’’, Seminar, BA, LA and MA levels,
Winter Semester.
“Research Seminar: Challenging the Challenges of Literary Studies”, Seminar, MA and PhD
levels, Winter Semester.
“Cultural and Literary Theory: Introduction for Advanced Students”, Seminar, MA level,
Winter Semester.
“Renaissance English Literature: Texts and Adaptations”, Seminar, LA level, Winter Semester.
“The Politics and Poetics of Literature and its Studies on the Move: Intersectionalities and
Transcultural Encounters”, Seminar, MA and PhD levels, Winter Semester.
“Intertextuality and Intersectionality in African Literature”, Seminar, BA, LA, MA and PhD
levels, Winter Semester.
“Transcultural Britain: Theories that Matter”, Seminar, LA and BA levels, Winter Semester.
“Survey of English Literature: Readings in Transcultural English Studies”, Lecture, BA, LA
and MA levels, Winter Semester.
“The Politics and Poetics of Literature and its Studies on the Move: Intersectionalities and
Transcultural Encounters”, Colloquium, MA and PhD levels, Summer Semester.
“Übung für Examenskandidat*innen im Lehramtsstudiengang Englisch” (Literaturwissenschaft
Anglistik/Amerikanistik)”, Seminar, LA level, Summer Semester.
“All around the Globe. Contemporary Novels in English”, Seminar, MA level, Summer
Semester.
“The Victorian Novel. Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë and Joseph Conrad”, Seminar, BA
and LA levels, Summer Semester.
“Postcolonial and Gender (Literary) Theory”, Seminar, MA and PhD levels, Winter Semester.
“Shakespeare’s Legacy and Contemporary Fiction”, Seminar, MA level, Winter Semester.
“Übung für Examenskandidat*innen im Lehramtsstudiengang Englisch” (Literaturwissenschaft
Anglistik/Amerikanistik), LA level, Winter Semester.
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2011-2012
2011
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2011
2011
2011
2010-2011
2010-2011
2010-2011
2010-2011
2010-2011
“Intercultural Communication, Literature and Diaspora” *, London School of Economics,
Seminar, BA and MA levels, Winter Semester.
“Survey of English Literature: Racism in British Writing”, Lecture, BA, LA and MA levels,
Winter Semester.
“Postcolonial and Gender (Literary) Theory: The Politics and Poetics of Cultural Encounters”,
Seminar, MA and PhD levels, Summer Semester.
“Übung für Examenskandidat_innen im Lehramtsstudiengang Englisch”*
(Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik/Amerikanistik), LA level, Summer Semester.
“Diaspora Studies, Critical Whiteness Studies and Anglophone Literatures from a
Transcultural Perspective” *, Seminar, MA level, Summer Semester.
“Renaissance English Literature. William Shakespeare, John Webster and Ben Jonson Textual Origins and Adaptations for Theatre and Film”, Seminar, BA and LA levels, Summer
Semester.
“The Island as Topos in British Literature”, Seminar, BA and LA levels, summer term.
“Postcolonial (Literary) Theory: The Politics and Poetics of Cultural Encounters” *,
Colloquium, MA and PhD levels, Winter Semester.
“Slavery in British Writing and Contemporary Film: What Whiteness Has to Do with the
European Enslavement of Africans”, Seminar, MA level, Winter term.
“Transcultural English Studies: Entangled Histories, Cultures and Literatures” *, Seminar, MA
and PhD levels, Winter Semester.
“The Victorian Novel. Charles Dickens, Rider Haggard and Joseph Conrad”, Seminar, BA
level, Winter Semester.
“Survey of Literature in English: Women’s Literature in Africa and African Diasporas” ,
Lecture, BA and LA levels, Winter Semester.
GOETHE UNIVERSITY FRANKFURT/M.
2009-2010
2009-2010
2009-2010
2009-2010
2006-2007
2006
“Narrating Slavery, Colonialism and Empire: Strategies of Aestheticising Violence in British
Writing”, Seminar, MA level, Winter Semester.
“English Renaissance Literature”, Seminar, MA level, Winter Semester.
“Postcolonial Theories and British Writing”, Seminar, MA level, Winter Semester.
“The Island as Topos in British Writing”, Seminar, MA level, Winter Semester.
“Colonialism, Migration and 'Race'. Postcolonial Rereadings and Rewritings of Othello and
The Tempest”, Seminar, MA level, Winter Semester.
“Challenges and Changes. Rereading Anglophone Women Writing from Africa”, Seminar,
MA level, Summer Semester.
HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY AND UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA
2009
2009
2008-2009
2008-2009
2005
“Ein halbes Jahrhundert afrikanische Frauenliteraturen. Widerstand, Utopien und Fantasien”,
Seminar, BA level, Summer Semester.
“Afrikanische Diasporas in Europa. Vergleichende Perspektiven auf die Schwarze britische
und deutsche Literatur”, Seminar, MA and PhD levels, Summer Semester.
“Postkoloniale Theorie, Transkulturalität und Kritische Weißseinsforschung”, Seminar, BA
level, Winter Semester.
“Shakespeare zwischen Renaissance und afrikanischer/ diasporischer Literatur. Rasse und
Geschlecht in (Adaptionen von) den 'Dark-Lady'-Sonetten, Othello und The Tempest”,
Seminar, MA and PhD levels, Winter Semester.
“Die Literarisierung von Weißsein und Gender. Critical Whiteness im Kontext von Literaturen
aus Europa und Afrika. Schwerpunkt anglophone Literaturen”, Seminar, with Peggy Piesche,
MA and PhD levels, Summer Semester.
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2002-2003
2002-2003
2002
2001-2002
2001-2002
2001-2002
2001
2001
2001
2001-2003
2000-2003
2000-2001
2000-2001
2000
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1999-2000
1998-1999
1998-1999
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1997-1998
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1995
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1994
“Postcolonial Studies und Critical Whiteness Studies”, Colloquium, Centre for Literary and
Cultural Research, MA and PhD levels, since Summer Semester 2003 to Summer Semester
2010.
“Einführung in das Studium der afrikanischen Literaturen”, Seminar, with Marek Spitczok von
Brisinski, Seminar, BA level, Winter Semester.
“The Interpreters: Kultur und Gesellschaft in Nigeria”, Seminar, with Marek Spitczok von
Brisinski, MA and PhD levels, Winter Semester.
“Widerstand und Theorie: Afrikanischer Feminismus als Herausforderung für den Weißen
Feminismus. Ein transdisziplinäres Seminar zwischen Afrika- und Kulturwissenschaft”,
Seminar, with Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, MA and PhD levels, Summer Semester.
“Kulturelle Prozesse und gesellschaftliche Konflikte: Das Beispiel Theatre for Development
und Film”, Seminar, with Michael Pesek, MA and PhD levels, Winter and Summer Semesters.
“Grundlagen in Literaturtheorie und Afrika-Literaturwissenschaft”, Seminar, BA level, Winter
Semester.
“Literaturen in Afrika”, Colloquium, MA and PhD levels, Summer and Winter Semester.
“Strömungen der afrikanisch-feministischen Literatur”, Seminar, MA and PhD levels, Summer
Semester (Sokrates exchange, taught in Vienna).
“Strömungen und Tendenzen der Literatur aus Afrika”, Seminar, BA level, Summer Semester.
“,Race’ und Gender in der afrikanischen Literatur”, Seminar, MA level, Summer Semester.
“Introduction to Gender Studies”, Lecture, team-teaching.
“Introduction to African Studies”, Lecture, team-teaching.
“Einführung in das Studium der afrikanischen Literaturen”, Seminar, BA level, Winter
Semester.
“Koloniale Konzeptionen von Afrika in Film und Literatur”, Seminar, MA level, Winter
Semester.
“Geschichte und Theorie der afrikanischen Literatur”, Seminar, BA level, Summer Semester.
“Du schwarz - ich weiß? Rassismus und Interkulturalität”, Seminar, with Michael Pesek and
Albert Wirz, MA and PhD levels, Summer and Winter Semester.
“Mord und Selbstmord in der afrikanischen Literatur”, Seminar, MA level, Winter Semester.
“Ein kurzer Abriss der Geschichte der afrikanischen Literatur”, Seminar, BA level, Winter
Semester.
“Strömungen der afrikanisch-feministischen Literatur”, Seminar, MA level, Winter Semester.
“Afrikanische Konzeptionen von Europa”, Seminar, BA level, Summer Semester.
“Lektürekurs: Flora Nwapa und Buchi Emecheta”, Seminar, MA level, Summer Semester.
“Populäre Kulturen in Afrika”, Seminar, MA level, Winter Semester.
“Vergleichende Analysen von europäischen Konzeptionen von Afrika und
Geschlechterkonzeptionen in der afrikanischen Literatur”, Seminar, BA level, Winter
Semester.
“Neue Tendenzen in der afrikanischen Frauenliteratur: Nigerianische, simbabwische und
kenianische Prosa”, Seminar, MA level, Summer Semester.
“Einführung in das Studium der afrikanischen Literaturen “, Seminar, BA level, with Flora
Veit-Wild, Summer Semester.
“Feminismus in der afrikanischen Literatur”, Seminar, MA level, Winter and Summer
Semesters.
“Oratur in Afrika”, Seminar, MA level, Summer Semester.
“Poetik der literarischen Emanzipation: Dekolonisation in der afrikanischen Literatur”,
Seminar, MA level, Winter Semester.
“Zwischen Traum und Wirklichkeit: Afrikanische Autorinnen und Frauenbilder in der
afrikanischen Literatur”, Seminar, MA level, Summer Semester.
20 GRADUATE STUDENTS
BA-THESES AND MA-THESES CHAIRED
2015
2015
2015
2015
2015
2015
2015
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2011
2010
Messada, Anouar. “Beauty and Fashion. Reconceptualizing Beauty in Selected Works by
Toni Morrison’”, University of Bayreuth, MA.
Smida, Dilan, Zoe. “Whiteness and Dogs. Postcolonial Ecocriticism and J.M Coetzee’s
Disgrace”, University of Bayreuth, MA.
Ajayi, Oladapo. “Subversive Sexuality. Remixing Yoruba oriki in YouTube”, University of
Bayreuth, MA.
Assa, Shirin. “The Representation of Female Diasporic Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie’s Americanah and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland”, University of Bayreuth, MA.
Yuran, Mingqing. “A Stranger in a Stranger’s Place. The Body in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth”,
University of Bayreuth, MA.
Wanzin, Xu. “Negotiation of Identity in Vladimir Nabokov’s Pnin”, University of Bayreuth,
MA.
Wang, Xu. “Sexual Relations in Selected Plays of Edward Albee”, University of Bayreuth,
MA.
Anchimbe, Joyce. “Conceptualisations of Nature and Environment in Cameroon Anglophone
Poetry”, University of Bayreuth, MA.
Tanimomo, Oluseun. “Identity in the Work of Chimamanda Adichie and Terry Woo”,
University of Bayreuth, MA.
Yuran, Shi. “Intertextualities in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth”, University of Bayreuth, MA.
Franziska, Wagner. “Representing LGBTIQ Lives in South African Literature. Rereading
Reclaiming the L-Word and Trans: Transgender Life Stories from South Africa”, University of
Bayreuth, BA.
Thierl, Heiko. “The Leeway of Piracy in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and Cory
Doctorow’s Pirate Cinema”, University of Bayreuth, MA (September).
Landgraf, Stefanie. “‘All Good Things Shall Pass Away-Christian Language and Imagery in
Selected African Poems”, University of Bayreuth, LA (July).
Ruff, Carina. “The Female Bildungsroman Jane Eyre. A Study on the Protagonist’s
Development and Gender”, University of Bayreuth, LA (July).
Konrad, Matthias. “A Comparative Approach to Teaching Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s
Travels”, University of Bayreuth, LA (July).
Ehrke, Verena. “Teaching William Golding’s Lord of the Flies - A Children’s Book?”
University of Bayreuth, LA (July).
Twarkodus, Sebastian. “Gothic and the Graphic Novel. Visualizing the Uncanny”, University
of Bayreuth, BA (December).
Baas, Renzo. “Race and Gender in Zakes Mda’s Novel Ways of Dying”, University of
Bayreuth, MA (October).
Saleh, Fadi. “The Poetics of Sexuality and Silence”, University of Bayreuth, MA (September).
Li, Jun. “Intercultural Communication and/in Shakespeare’s Othello”, University of Bayreuth,
MA (August).
Na, Su. “Salman Rushdie’s Intertextual Dialogue with Shakespeare’s The Tempest”, University
of Bayreuth, MA (August).
Schommer, David. “Bilder, Selbstbilder und Gegenbilder. Subjektkonstitution in touristischer
‚Afrikafotografie‘ und Gegenstrategie”, Institut für Soziologie der Goethe University, BA
(April).
Kaufhold, Charlotte. “Kolonialer Rassismus. Über Verknüpfungen von Rassismus und
Ökonomie aus materialistisch-postkolonialer Perspektive”, Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt
University, BA (December).
Aydin, Sibel. “Bryan Stanley Johnson’s Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry and John Robert
Fowles’ Mantissa in the Context of the Theory of Metafiction”, University of Bayreuth, MA
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2009
2009
2009
2009
2007
2003
(August); honoured with the DAAD-Award for the most successful foreign student of the
University of Bayreuth (2010).
Chuba, Alain. “Gender and Motherhood in Jamaica Kincaid's Novels”, Afrikawissenschaften,
Humboldt University, MA (January).
Chetty, Janina. “Legitimierungsstrategien der Afrikawissenschaft”, Afrikawissenschaften,
Humboldt University, BA (August).
Theodor, Jennifer. “Die Ohn-Macht der Übersetzung. Postkoloniale Perspektiven auf eine alte
Kunst”, Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt University, BA (August).
Köpsell, Phillipp. “Schwarze Poesie in Deutschland”, Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt
University, BA (July).
Anschütz, Elisabeth. “Queer and Whiteness”, Institut für Transdisziplinäre
Geschlechterstudien, Humboldt University, BA (July).
Wiegand, Frauke. “Der weiße Blick im deutschen Fern(e)sehfilm. Die Bildung imaginärer
Rezeptionsgemeinschaften über ein Schema ‚Afrika’”, Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt
University, MA (May).
Ugwa, Adaora. “Rewriting Gender Conceptions: Women in the Novels of Flora Nwapa and
Buchi Emecheta”, Institut für England- und Amerikastudien, Goethe University, MA (March)
Arnegger, Natalie. “Filmproduktion im Maghreb”, Filmhochschule Potsdam-Babelsberg, BA
(August).
DISSERTATIONS CHAIRED
201520142014201320132013201220122012201120112011201020102010-2015
2010-2015
Assa, Shirin. “Poetics of Trans-Identity in New York: A Comparative Study of Afro-Latin
American Identity”.
Wachira, James. “Local Knowledge and Environment in Kenyan Oral Poetry”, University of
Bayreuth, IPP PhD.
Loukson, Ives, Sang. “Repräsentationen sozialer Dynamiken im Post-Apartheidroman
Schwarzer Autor*innen”, University of Bayreuth, IPP PhD.
Baas, Renzo. “Visions of Space in British, German, Namibian and South African Fiction.”
University of Bayreuth, BIGSAS, DAAD Scholarship, PhD.
Xin, Li. “Silence as Resistance in First Nation American Novels”, University of Bayreuth,
China Scholarship Council, IPP PhD.
Aboluwade, Ifeoluwa. “Translation as Interpretation”, University of Bayreuth, DAAD
Scholarship, IPP PhD.
Donsomsakulkij, Weeraya. “Nature and Environment in South African Novels”, University of
Bayreuth, BIGSAS PhD.
Fulela, Brian. “Suicide Visions in Contemporary South African Fiction”, University of
Bayreuth, Double Degree with Dur, BIGSAS PhD.
Kullrich, Nina. “Weißsein und Kosmetik in Indien”, University of Bayreuth, IPP PhD.
Dittmann, Julia. “Weißsein und der okzidentale Film”, University of Bayreuth, BIGSAS PhD
(maternal leave 2013-2015)
Barham, Nabil. “Palestine@Israel. Poetry on Conflict and Trauma”, University of Bayreuth
DAAD Scholarship, IPP PhD..
Vackermann, Kej. “Rites of Passage: Standpoint Reform in (Post)colonial Feminist Comingof-Age in the Americas”, University of Bayreuth, DAAD Scholarship, IPP PhD.
Ofuatey-Alazard, Nadja. “Konzeptionen von Europa in der afrikanischen und afrikanischdiasporischen Literatur”, University of Bayreuth, BIGSAS PhD (on leave since 2014)
Aydin, Sibel. “Transculturalism in the Works of Ahdaf Soueif”, University of Bayreuth,
IPP/BIGSAS PhD (on maternal leave since 2014)
Köppen, Grit. “Aktuelle Tendenzen im äthiopischen Theater”, University of Bayreuth,
BIGSAS PhD (submitted in December 2015).
Fu, Lin. “Trauma in Chinese North American Fiction”, University of Bayreuth, IPP PhD
(submitted in January 2015).
22 HABILITATION/2ND THESES
201420152011-2015
Popal, Mariam. “Touching space in Text(-ures) - Affect and dialogism in the works of Paul
Auster and Zadie Smith.” University of Bayreuth.
Adenekan, Shola. “The Sexual, the Spiritual and the Political: Class Consciousness in Nigerian
Literature and Performing Arts.” University of Bayreuth.
Coester, Markus. “Highlife – Unbound. A Study of Highlife as a trilocal and transnational
popular music culture. 1950-65.” University of Bayreuth.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Association of African Women Scholars (AAWS)
Deutscher Anglistenverband
Association for Anglophone Postcoonial Studies (ASNEL/GAP)
African Literature Association (ALA)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
20122011 – 2014
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Founding Member and Co- Director, Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies (October
2012 – April 2015; Project Leader 2012 - )
Board of Directors and Academic Committee, Bayreuth International Graduate School of
African Studies (BIGSAS, funded by excellence-initiative of the German Research Foundation)
as Deputy Gender Representative (December 2011 – July 2012), Gender-Representative (July
– October 2012), Diversity Representative (November 2012 – March 2014)
Founder and Co-Director, BIGSAS-Festival of African and African-Diasporic Literature
Member, Bayreuth Institute of American Studies (BIFAS)
Member, “Institute of African Studies”, University of Bayreuth (IAS)
Supervisor and Mentor, “Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies”
(BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth
Supervisor and Mentor, International Graduate School “Intercultural Encounters”, University
of Bayreuth
Consulting Expert in in the Delegation of the Bundespräsident, 4. “Afrika-Forum”, Abuja
(Nigeria), directed by Bundespräsident Horst Köhler and Nigerian president S. E. Umaru M.
Yar’Adua
Affiliated Researcher and Lecturer, Center of Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt
University, Berlin
Co-coordinator, European Research Forum for Whiteness and Blackness in the Context of
Racism, (Post-)Colonialism, Migration and Diasporas
Team of specialists “Africa in German School Textbooks”, German government and KinradAdenauer-foundation (CDU)
Co-coordinator, Researcher and Lecturer of the Joint Commission on Gender Studies,
Humboldt University, Berlin
ACADEMIC REFEREE
2015201520112010201020102008-
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst
VW-Foundation
Editorial Bord, edition assemblage
Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
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19961993-1996
External Expert in PhD and appointment committees at Potsdam/Germany (Media Studies),
Universities of Leiden/Netherlands (African Literature and Gender), Fort Hare/South Africa
(English Literature), Lagos/Nigeria (English Literature)
Unrast Verlag
Editorial Board, Argument Verlag mit Ariadne Verlag (feminist journal)
(Co-)EXECUTIVE and Third-Party Funded
2015
2015
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
2012
2011
2009
2005
2005
2003
2003
2003
International Symposium: “Postcolonial Shakespeare. Origins and Legacies of a
Global Narrative”, University of Bayreuth (October).
International Symposium: “Stuart Hall’s Legacy for Thinking Tomorrows
Planetarily. Representation, Language and Postcoloniality in Posthumanism and
Beyond. Workshop in Honour of Stuart Hall”, University of Bayreuth (July).
International Annual Conference of the African Literature Association: “Future
Africa and Beyond. Visions in Transition”, University of Bayreuth (June).
BIGSAS-Literature Festival: “Festival of African and African Diasporic Literatures”;
on “Future Africa and Beyond. Visions in Transition”, University of Bayreuth (June).
International Workshop: “Knowing Shakespeare. Manuscripts, Intertextuality &
Fashion”, University of Bayreuth (January).
Literature Festival: “Festival of African and African Diasporic Literatures”; “18841904-1914 Literatures of/and Memory”, University of Bayreuth (June).
International Workshop: “Technology, Race and Diaspora”, University of Bayreuth
(January).
International Workshop: “Anton Wilhelm Amo in transkultureller Perspektive”
[Transcultural Readings of Anton Wilhelm Amo], University of Bayreuth
(November).
International Conference: “Conceptualising Future. Current Debates in Regional and
Systematic Research University of Bayreuth (July).
Literature Festival: “Festival of African and African Diasporic Literatures”;
“Intertextualities: Dialogues in Motion”, University of Bayreuth (June).
International Workshop: “Towards a Poetics of Yoruba Masculinities”, University of
Bayreuth (March).
International Workshop: “Future Africa – Visions in Time”, University of Bayreuth
(October).
Literature Festival: “Festival of African and African Diasporic Literatures”;
“Remembering Flash Forward: African Literatures as Poetics in Motion”, University
of Bayreuth (June).
Literature Festival: “Festival of African and African Diasporic Literatures”; “African
Conceptualisations of Europe”, University of Bayreuth (May).
International Colloquium: “Rassismus, Wissen(schaft) und Universität” [Racism,
Knowledge and University], Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin (June).
International Colloquium: “'Rasse'. Historische und Diskursive Perspektiven’”
['Race'. Historical and Discursive Perspectives], Zentrum für Literaturforschung,
Berlin (November).
International Colloquium: “Exo-Phonie. Anders-Sprachigkeit (in) der Literatur”
[Exophony in and of Literature], Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin, (January).
3rd Workshop: Critical Whiteness Studies in Germany, “Whiteness and Gender“,
Berlin (October).
2nd Workshop: Critical Whiteness Studies in Germany; Whiteness and Gender, Berlin
(April).
1st workshop: Critical Whiteness Studies in Germany; Whiteness and Gender, Berlin
(January).
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Public Workshop: “Auf der Suche nach der Freiheit. Leben und Werk von Mongo
Beti, René Philombe und Francis Bebey. Ihr Beitrag für ein demokratisches und
unabhängiges Kamerun” [In Search of Freedom. The Life and Work of Mongo Beti,
René Philombe and Francis Bebey. Their Contribution Toward a Democratic and
Independent Cameroon], Event organised in cooperation with the “Cameroonian
Committee in Germany”, Berlin (October).
2002
Public Workshop: “Chinua Achebe: Weltliteratur aus Nigeria” [Chinua Achebe:
World Literature from Nigeria]. Event to mark Chinua Achebe’s acceptance of the
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. In cooperation with the Heinrich Böll
Foundation and the Center for Literary Research, Berlin (September).
2002
1st German International Conference on African Literature; “Versions &
Subversions”, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, with over 300 participants
from over 40 countries (May).
2002
Panel: “'Race' in German Society and Literature”. Panel at the African Literature
Association’s conference in San Diego, USA (April).
2000-2001 Public Lecture Series: “Afrikabilder. Studien zu Rassismus in Deutschland” [Images
of Africa. Studies on Racism in Germany], Humboldt University, Berlin.
2000
Public Lecture series: “Afrika in Politik, Medien und Gesellschaft” [Africa in
Politics, Media and Society], Humboldt University, Berlin.
2000
Public Conference: “Africanissima”, Evangelische Akademie Bad Boll, Germany
(October).
1998-2001 Public Lecture Series: “African Modernities, Humboldt University, Berlin
1997-1998 Public Lecture Series “African Studies”, Free University of Berlin
DIDACTIC COURSES and EVALUATION
Lehramtsstudium (1986-1991)
Grundlagen des e-Learning Systems moodle zur Unterstützung der Präsenzlehre
Reflektierte Textarbeit in der Lehre
Kompetenzorientiert prüfen
Evaluations of my Courses with subsequent discussions (Each Semester)
LANGUAGES
German (native fluency); English (excellent); French (research language); Russian (research
language); Hausa (MA courses)
Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt
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