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Staff
Discipline Literature/Culture

Field Representatives

Prof. Dr. Flora Veit-Wild

Prof. Dr. Susanne Gehrmann

Scientific Members of Staff

MA Anne Schelhorn

MA Hilmar Heister

Researcher

Dr Ineke Phaf-Rheinberg, Project leader "En route durch die Neuere Atlantische Geschichte - Land und Meer in Literatur aus Afrika und Lateinamerika"

Foundationers

Dr. Félix Ayoh'Omidire (Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation)

Lecturers

MA Ibou Diop Coulibaly (The Poetics, Politics and Identity Formations of Négritude)

Student Assistant

Marlene Genschel

Stefanie Reuter

Charlott Schönwetter

Former Visiting Professor

Dr. Susan Arndt

Dr. Shumirai Nyota (Visiting Lecture WS 2010/11)

Former Scientific Staff

Dr. Christine Matzke

Former Researcher

Anja Schwarz, "Departure and change: The work and influence of Janheinz Jahn (1918-1973) as mediator of African literatures and cultures in Germany"