Susanne Gehrmann

Professor
Institute for Asian and African Studies
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

E-mail: susanne.gehrmann@rz.hu-berlin.de
Phone: +49 (0)30-209366022

Institute of Asian and African Studies (IAAW)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin

De:link//Re:link Projects

The Chinese Dream and the New Silk Roads

Previous phase:
New Dynamics in the Cultural Field: The Role of the Confucius Institutes in East and West Africa (TL 1)

Susanne Gehrmann

Research Interests

  • // General and Comparative African literary studies with foci on the DRC and Togo
  • // Adaptation, intermediality and genre innovations
  • // Gender and queer studies
  • // Sociology of literature and culture

Vita

MA and PhD studies in Bochum, Paris, Cologne and Bayreuth; PhD in Comparative Literature in 2001, 2000-2002 lecturer at the University of Bayreuth; 2002-2010 junior professor at IAAW, HU-Berlin, 2008/2009 Feodor-Lynen fellow at Université Laval/Québec; since 2011 professor of African literatures and cultures at IAAW, HU-Berlin, 2020/21 fellow of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies.

Project leader of “Au delà des ténébres. Representation and explication of violence in Congolese literature after 1960” (DFG). Project leader of BOBIB: “Cross-connections between Nigeria and Négritude in the Decades of Decolonization. Exploring and Translating the Archives of Orphée noir – Schwarzer Orpheus – Black Orpheus” (AvH).

Selected Publications