CURRENT PROJECTS

„Afroeurope and Cyberspace: Imaginations of Diasporic Communities, Digital Agency and Poetic Strategies – Unravelling the Textures.“ ERC Starting Grant.
Funded by the European Research Council, funding ID 101110473.
Principal Investigator: Julia Borst.

PAST PROJECTS

“The Spanish Black Diaspora: Afro-Spanish Literature of the 20th and 21st Century” Sachbeihilfe mit eigener Stelle.
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), project number 353492083 (funding period: 2018-2023).
Principal Investigator: Julia Borst

„Digital Diaspora: Imagined Communities in Cyberspace.“ Research Lab.
Funded by the research platform Worlds of Contradiction of U Bremen (funding period: 2020-2024).
Lab members: Julia Borst, Axel Dunker, Gisela Febel, Linda Maeding, Corina Wieser-Cox, Shola Adenekan.

„Gewalt und Trauma im haitianischen (und dominikanischen) Gegenwartsroman.“
Dissertation project, U Hamburg, supervised by Markus Klaus Schäffauer (project duration: 2008-2014).