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) |