Dr Anne Potjans

Dr Anne Potjans is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC Consolidator Grant-funded research project “Tales of the Diasporic Ordinary. Aesthetics, Affects, Archives” at Humboldt University in Berlin. In this context, she is developing a book project that deals with the intersection of queerness and Blackness in Germany. A preliminary title is “Night Shift – Queer Subcultural Spaces and the Black Diasporic Experience.” In May 2024, her dissertation was published as a book entitled Why Are You So Angry? Anger and Rage in Black Feminist Literature by Peter Lang Verlag. Since 2015, Anne Potjans has been teaching English and American Studies at HU and researching Black feminism from a transnational perspective, Black Studies, and the intersection of race, sexuality, and gender.