Funding

Funding for own positions and research projects

VolkswagenStiftung Scoping Workshop: „Research Perspectives on the Black European Archive: Materialities, Medialities, Aesthetics“ (with Francesca Aiuti, Gianna Zocco and Sandra Folie).18-20 February 2026, Xplanatorium Herrenhausen, Hannover.
ERC Starting Grant as Principal Investigator for the project „Afroeurope and Cyberspace: Imaginations of Diasporic Communities, Digital Agency and Poetic Strategies – Unravelling the Textures“ (101110473) (funding period: 2024-2029)
Individual Research Grant (‚Sachbeihilfe mit eigener Stelle‘), German Research Foundation (DFG)
„Die spanische Black Diaspora: Afro-spanische Literatur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts“ – Project number 353492083 (funding period: 2018-2024)
Independent Projects for Postdocs (‚Brückenstelle in die Postdocphase‘), Central Research Development Fund (ZF) of U Bremen
„Die spanische Black Diaspora: Afro-spanische Literatur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts“ (funding period: 2015-2018)
Interdisciplinary Research Lab, Worlds of Contradiction, U Bremen
„Digital Diaspora: Imagined Communities in Cyberspace“
„Digital Diaspora: Imagined Communities in Cyberspace“ (funding period: 2020-2024)
With Gisela Febel and Linda Maeding.

Funding for research ad teaching activities (selection)

Data Science Center Seed Grant, U Bremen
Project title: „SQL-Based Data Science Infrastructure for Digital Humanities: Analyzing Afrodiasporic Online Discourse“ (with Liam Hurwitz)
DAAD scholarships for conferences:
– American Comparative Literature Association Conference in Los Angeles, USA (April 2018)
– African Literature Association Conference in Atlanta (Georgia), USA (April 2016)
– 36th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies in Oxford, UK (July 2012)
Central Research Development Fund (ZF), U Bremen (Impulse Grants & Conference Participation Program):
– participation in the Conference of the German French Studies Association (Frankoromanistiktag) in Osnabrück (Sept 2018)
– participation in the Conference Afroeurope@ans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe V in Münster (Sept 2015)
– Research stay at U Vienna (May 2015)
Internationalization Fund of U Bremenn and the University of Bremen Foundation:
– Visiting professorship of Stephen Small (U of California, Berkeley) at U Bremen and public lecture at Schwankhalle Bremen (June 2018, with Cedric Essi)
Academic Associations
– Program „Förderung für kleinere Projekte“ of the German Association of Hispanic Studies (DHV) for a Study Day on Equatorial Guinea (Jan 2020)
– PhD Bursary of the Society for Caribbean Studies for the 36th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies in Oxford, UK (July 2012)
– Scholarship of the Caribbean Studies Association for the 35th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association in St. Peter, Barbados (May 2010)
Körperschaftsvermögen U Hamburg:
– Participation in the Summer School „Haiti Today“ in Vallue, Haiti, and research stay in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (July-Aug 2010)
Other funding:
– Funding of the Study Day on Haiti by the Institute for Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies (INPUTS) of U Bremen, the Deutsch-Französische Gesellschaft in Bremen e. V. and the Haitian Embassy in Germany (Jan 2016, with Natascha Ueckmann)

Stipendien

Ausgewählte Teilnehmerin des Karriereförderprogramms plan m Mentoring in Science für Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaftlerinnen“ an der Universität Bremen (Januar 2016 – Juni 2017)
Promotionsstipendium (Februar 2009 – Januar 2012)
ERASMUS-Stipendium für ein Auslandsstudium an der Universität Nice – Sophia Antipolis, Frankreich (Oktober 2002 – Juli 2003)