Team
Festival Team 2020

Susan Arndt, Professor of Transcultural English Studies at the University of Bayreuth, PI in the Cluster of Excellence “Africa Multiple” and co-spokesperson of the Network Gender, Queer, Intersectionality and Queer Studies (GeQuInDi)


Maximilian Arndt, law student based in Berlin


Camillo Arndt, pupil based in Berlin


Kolade Igbasan, trained journalist, language teacher, movie actor, African language and culture enthusiast, linguist, PhD candidate in Language Acquisition at the University of Bayreuth, and a voluntary fire-fighter with the Freiwillige Feuerwehr Bayreuth


Katharina Fink, Dr. Phil, BIGSAS Alumna, works at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies and runs a project on inclusive aesthetics at Iwalewahaus. With Dr. Nadine Siegert she's founder and head of iwalewabooks, a publishing house for art & discourse.


Lena Hennes, based in Berlin, Gender Studies / Cultural History and Theory; study focus: analyses of social inequalities and discrimination (intersectionality, classism)


Numaira Khan, Pakistan, Master student of the MAIAS programme at the University of Bayreuth

Xin Li, holds a doctorate in English Studies and s a postdoctoral researcher in Intersectionality Studies at Bayreuth University


Alice Mingqing Yuan, MA, BIGSAS Junior Fellow researching on African(-diasporic) conceptualisations of China


Dikko Muhammad, MA., BIGSAS Junior Fellow researching on women’s poetry in Northern Nigeria


Tolulope Oke is an art enthusiast and a fellow of progress. Tolulope studied English at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, and completing his doctoral studies on Africanfuturism at the University of Bayreuth. He is the Publisher of Lunaris Review: a journal of art and the literary, and the facilitator of the Toyin Falola Prize.



BIGSAS LITFEST TEAM 2019


Muhammed Alkhatib, MA, PhD student at the International Graduate School at the University of Bayreuth and professional tourist guide in Syria

Susan Arndt, Professor of Transcultural English Studies at the University of Bayreuth, PI in the Cluster of Excellence “Africa Multiple” and co-spokesperson of the Network Gender, Queer, Intersectionality and Queer Studies (GeQuInDi)

Maximilian Arndt, law student based in Berlin

Amélie Arndt, pupil based in Berlin
Joshua Arndt, freelance musician, based in Berlin
Camillo Arndt, pupil based in Berlin

Shirin Assa, wiss. Mitarbeiterin at the Department of English, a board member of the research association Future Migration. Network for Cultural Diversity and co-coordinator of Gender, Queer, Intersectionality and Diversity network of University of Bayreuth.

Shahrzad Azimi, B.Sc, student of applied computer science at the University of Bayreuth

Tanu Biswas,M.A., Mphil., Junior Researcher at the Department of General Pedagogy, University of Bayreuth

Taghrid Elhanafy, MA, PhD student at the University of Bayreuth, researching on MENA sources of William Shakespeare

Kolade Igbasan, trained journalist, language teacher, movie actor, African language and culture enthusiast, linguist, PhD candidate in Language Acquisition at the University of Bayreuth, and a voluntary fire-fighter with the Freiwillige Feuerwehr Bayreuth

Katharina Fink, Dr. Phil, BIGSAS Alumna, works at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies and runs a project on inclusive aesthetics at Iwalewahaus. With Dr. Nadine Siegert she's founder and head of iwalewabooks, a publishing house for art & discourse.

Gustav Müller is a globe trotter and imaginary technician, based in Berlin

Muhammad Khabour, BA, Master student of the MAIAS programme at the University of Bayreuth 

Numaira Khan, BA, Master student of the MAIAS programme at the University of Bayreuth and professional tourist guide in Syria
Xin Li, MA. is PhD candidate at IPP, University of Bayreuth, doing research on silence and marginalized literatures in transcultural perspectives

Tomupeishe Maphosa, MSc, is a PhD student at the University of Bayreuth researching on lived feminisms in literature; working in communication, gender and development consultancy.

Dikko Muhammad, MA., BIGSAS Junior Fellow researching on women’s poetry in Northern Nigeria

Aslihan Özcan, a member of the student association for the language and literature department at the University of Bayreuth and student assistant.

Veronika Rudolf, BA, chairwoman of the student association of the Faculty of Languages and Literatures and MA student Literature and Media, Bayreuth University

Stephan Ruhland, M.A. International Economics and Governance and M.Sc. Economics is the student counselor-coordinator for the B.A. Intercultural Studies and a long-term student assistant at the Professorship of English Studies and Anglophone Literatures. 

Joyce Abla Sango, MA, PhD student at the University of Bayreuth, researching on African feminism in selected works of contemporary Cameroonian and Nigerian writers

Maximilian Schulz, radio host and Techno DJ based in Halle, Germany

Dilan Zoe Smida, MA in Literature and Media at the University of Bayreuth and board member of the research association Future Migration. Network for Cultural Diversity, currently detergence at Graf-Münster Gymnasium.

Mohammad Taheri, BA, Master student of Intercultural German Studies, Bayreuth University.

James Wachira, MA, BIGSAS Junior Fellow researching on literary negotiations of knowledge on environment in Kenyan oral literature
Maya Wedekind is a musician based in Berlin, Germany

Paul David Wiedmann, teacher student and vice chairman of the student council at the Faculty for Linguistics and Literature and student assistant in German studies, University of Bayreuth

Alice Mingqing Yuan, MA, BIGSAS Junior Fellow researching on African(-diasporic) conceptualisations of China

Maryam Youssef, M.A. student, Intercultural German Studies at the University of Bayreuth

Contact
BIGSAS Festival of African and African-Diasporic Literatures
c/o Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies
Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt
Professur für Englische Literaturwissenschaft und Anglophone
Literaturen
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Universitätsstr. 30
Universität Bayreuth
D-95440 Bayreuth
e-mail: susan.arndt@uni-bayreuth.de

Directed by:
Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt
Shirin Assa
Dilan Zoe Smida

Website & Photography:
Maximilian Arndt; Maximilian Schulz

Artwork:
Hedieh Ahmadi

Technical Department:
Kolade Igbasan; Maximilian Arndt; Maximilian Schulz

Bookstore:
Joyce Abla Sango

Catering:
Orientalium Sweety; WEDDIVENTS


Venue:
Altes Schloss 
&
Iwalewahaus
Wölfelstr. 2
95440 Bayreuth

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