Dominique Haensell – Intersectional Feminism in Media and Academia
Thursday, November 11, 2021Online lecture and discussion
2:00 pm CET
BCB’s Internship Seminar is excited to host Dominique Haensell, a writer, translator, independent researcher, and journalist, and the co-editor-in-chief of Missy Magazine, the German-language magazine for pop, politics, and feminism. She’ll be talking about her work and leading a discussion on the seminal short text “Coalition Politics” by Bernice Johnson Reagon.
Born in the UK and raised in Germany, Haensell studied English Philology, Comp Lit and Critical Theory at the FU Berlin and King’s College London. In 2019, she completed a PhD at the JFKI’s Graduate School of North American Studies. Her monograph Making Black History: Diasporic Fiction in the Moment of Afropolitanism was published in 2021 and won a De Gruyter Open Access Award. Currently, she is working on a new book project, a hybrid memoir about Afro-German identity, German colonialism and her family’s relationship to German colonial Africa. She has been on the jury of various literary awards, regularly moderates literary panels, and is a member of different research groups such as Women of Color Resist and the African Atlantic Research Group (AARG). She lives in Berlin with her partner and daughter.
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