Susan Arndt

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Susan Arndt (* 1967 in Magdeburg ) is a German English and cultural scientist with a focus on literature.

Susan Arndt studied English, German and African studies in Berlin (1986–1991) and London (1991/92). From 1994 to 1997 she was a lecturer at the Institute for African Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU). In 1997 she did her doctorate with Eckhard Breitinger at the HU Berlin with a thesis on literatures in Nigeria. From 1996 to 1997 Arndt was a Research Fellow at St Antony's College . From 1997 to 2003 she was a research assistant at the African Studies Seminar at HU Berlin. From 2003 to 2006 she was a research assistant at the Center for Literary Research in Berlin . Since 2007 she has been a research assistant at the Institute for English and American Studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 2008/09 she was a substitute for the junior professorship for African literatures and cultures at the African Studies Seminar at HU-Berlin. In the winter semester 2009/2010 she was a substitute professor for English literatures in Frankfurt am Main. Since the summer semester 2010 she has been teaching as a professor for English and African literatures at the University of Bayreuth .

Her fields of work include West African women's literature, critical whiteness research , British literature with a focus on Shakespeare , sexism , intersectionality , feminism and racism . She has presented her work in numerous book publications. She is married to the historian Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk and has four children.

Fonts

Monographs

  • The 101 Most Important Questions: Racism. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63885-5 .
  • Feminism in conflict. African Feminism in Society and Literature. Unrast-Verlag, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-89771-201-6 .
    • English translation by Isabel Cole : The dynamics of African feminism. Defining and classifying African-feminist literatures. Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ; Asmara (Eritrea), ISBN 0-86543-898-6 .
  • Oral poetics and the poetics of writing back. Dissertation 1997, unprinted.
    • English translation by Isabel Cole: African women's literature, orature and intertextuality. Igbo oral narratives as Nigerian women writers' models and objects for writing back. 1998, ISBN 3-927510-59-9 .

Editorships

  • together with Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard: AfroFictional In [ter] ventions. Revisting the BIGSAS Festival of African (-Diasporic) Literatures 2011-2013. edition assemblage, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-942885-67-6 .
  • together with Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard: How racism speaks from words. (K) inherit colonialism in the German language knowledge archive. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3897715011 .
  • Theater, performance and new media in Africa. Breitinger-Verlag, Bayreuth 2007, ISBN 978-3-939661-01-6 .
  • together with Dirk Naguschewski, Robert Stockhammer: Exophonie. Differing language (in) literature. Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86599-024-2 .
  • together with Marek Spitczok von Brisinski: Africa, Europe and (post) colonialism. Racism, migration and diaspora in African literatures. Breitinger-Verlag, Bayreuth 2006, ISBN 3-927510-93-9 .
  • together with Maureen Maisha Eggers , Grada Kilomba, Peggy Piesche: Myths, Masks and Subjects. Critical whiteness research in Germany. Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-440-X .
  • together with Katrin Berndt: Creative Africa: Writers on literature, theater and society. Festschrift for Eckhard Breitinger. Hammer-Verlag, Wuppertal 2005, ISBN 3-7795-0028-0 . (English translation 2007 by Africa World Press)
  • together with Antje Hornscheidt : Africa and the German language. A critical reference work. Unrast-Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-89771-424-8 .
  • with the collaboration of Heiko Thierl and Ralf Walther: AfrikaBilder: Studies on racism in Germany. Unrast-Verlag, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-89771-407-8 ; Study edition 2006, ISBN 3-89771-028-5 .
  • Berlin, Mainzer Straße: "living is more important than the law". Basis-Druck, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-86163-020-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Arndt, Susan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg