Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt
Senior Fellow – English and Anglophone Literatures
Contact
Bayreuth International School of African Studies
University of Bayreuth
95440 Bayreuth
Tel: +49 (0) 921 55-3551
Fax: +49 (0) 921 55-3627
E-Mail: susan.arndt@uni-bayreuth.de
http://www.transkulturelle-anglistik.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/Arndt_Susan/index.htmlResearch Interests
literary and cultural studies, gender and feminist studies, postcolonial studies, colonialism and racism
Geographical Area
Anglophone Africa in general; Nigeria in particular; African diasporas in Europe (with particular emphasis on UK and Germany)
Academic Vita
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Since 2011 |
Professor of English Studies and Anglophone Literatures, University of Bayreuth |
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2009-2010 |
Subsititution, Professorship for English and Anglophone Literature, Institut für England- und Amerikastudien, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M. |
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2008-2009 |
Subsititution, Junior Professorship, Humboldt University of Berlin |
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2007-2008 |
Member of the scientific staff, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M., Institut für England- und Amerikastudien, Neue Englischsprachige Literaturen und Kulturen (NELK) |
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2007 |
Member of the scientific staff, Zentrum für Transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien und Nordeuropa, Humboldt University of Berlin |
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2006 |
Member of the scientific staff, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M., Institut für England- und Amerikastudien, Neue Englischsprachige Literaturen und Kulturen (NELK) |
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2003-2006 |
Member of the scientific staff, Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin |
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1997-2003 |
Member of the scientific staff, Humboldt University of Berlin |
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1997 |
PhD in Berlin |
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1996-1997 |
Senior Research Fellow, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University |
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Studies in Berlin and London |
Membership and functions in academic organisations
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since 2009 |
Editorial Board of the Bayreuth African Studies |
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11/2008 |
Member of the delegation of the 4th "Afrika-Forum", Abuja (Nigeria), convened by the President of the Feral Republic of Germany Horst Köhler and the Nigerian President S. E. Umaru M. Yar’Adua |
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2003-2004 |
Co-coordinator of the European Research Forum "Weißsein und Schwarzsein im Kontext von Rassismus, (Post)Kolonialismus, Migration und Diasporas" |
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08/2002-03/2003 |
Member of the Advisory Commission of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung "Afrika in deutschen Schulbüchern" |
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2001-2010 |
Editorial Board of the Unrast Verlag Münster |
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1997-2003 |
Member of the Governing Commission Gender Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin |
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1997–2000 |
Editorial Board of the Argument Verlag |
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1996-2003 |
Member of the Interdisziplinäre Kommission Berliner Afrikawissenschaftler (IKBA) |
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Member of the African Literature Association (ALA) |
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Member of the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English (ASNEL/GNEL) |
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Member of the Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland e.V. (VAD) |
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Member of the Association of African Women Scholars (AAWS) |
Publications
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