Susanne Gehrmann
Professor
Institute for Asian and African Studies
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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 Project:
New Dynamics in the Cultural Field: the Role of the Confucius Institutes in East and West Africa, TL 1
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.
Selected Publications
- Ed. with Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong: Crossings and Comparisons in African Literatures and Cultures. WVT, LuKA 15, Trier, 2022, 272 p.
- "Varieties of Romance in Contemporary Popular Togolese Literature", in: Grace Musila (ed.): Routledge Handbook of Popular African Cultures. Routledge, London 2022, pp. 74-91.
- Autobiographik in Afrika. Literaturgeschichte und Genrevielfalt. WVT, LuKA 14, Trier 2021, 231 p.
- "Une amitié intellectuelle au temps de la décolonisation. L’échange épistolaire (1959-1972) entre Abiola Irele et Janheinz Jahn", in: Colloques Fabula 59. Archives matérielles, traces mémorielles et littérature des Afriques, eds. Elara Bertho, Catherine Mazauric and Cécile van den Avenne, 2021
- "Congolese Child Soldier Narratives for Local and Global Audiences. From Testimony to Reconciliation”, in: Journal of World Literature 21, 2021, pp. 148-166.
- Ed. with Obala Fanuel Musumba, Oduor Obura and James Ogone: Emerging Trends in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures. Galda Verlag, Glienicke 2020, 352 p.
- "Remediating Romance. Functions of New Media in Contemporary Love Stories from Togo and South Africa" in: Africa Today 65/1, 2018, pp. 64-84.
- "Cosmopolitanism with African roots. Afropolitanism’s ambivalent mobilities", in: Journal of African Cultural Studies 28, 1/2016 pp. 61-72. Reissued in Carli Coetzee (ed.): Afropolitanism Reboot. Routledge, London 2017, pp. 18-29.
- Ed. with Dotsé Yigbe: Créativité intermédiatique au Togo et dans la diaspora togolaise. LIT, Münster/Berlin, 2015, 298 p.
- Kongo-Greuel. Zur literarischen Konfiguration eines kolonialkritischen Diskurses (1890-1910). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2003, 345 p.