After academic positions in Heidelberg, Basel, and Lyon, Prof. Dr. Anne Brüske has been affiliated with the University of Regensburg since the winter semester 2020/21, initially as Acting Professor for "Spatial Dimensions of Cultural Processes," and since October 2022 as the chairholder of this professorship. Her research and teaching are situated at the intersections of literary studies, cultural studies, and sociology, with a particular focus on areas of transculturation.
Central to her work are conceptions of space as a sociocultural construct, global dynamics of cultural exchange, and media—particularly fictional texts and multimodal narratives—as both reflections and drivers of social change. Her regional focus is on inter-American and transatlantic entanglements, especially concerning the plurilingual, (post)colonially shaped cultures of the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Francophone world. She has a particular interest in both narrative fictional and non-fictional literature, as well as graphic narratives.
Thematically, her research addresses cultural expressions of diaspora and migration; questions of identity, memory, and belonging in transnational and postcolonial contexts; intersectional perspectives on social inequality; and anthropological frameworks in literature and media within the contexts of coloniality, social transformation, and ecological crises.
Currently, she is engaged in projects examining cultural entanglements between Latin America—especially Cuba—and Eastern Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as eco-critical and post-apocalyptic graphic narratives from the Caribbean and Latin America.
Furthermore, she serves on the board of directors of the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Europe and America in the Modern World” and is actively involved in expanding international collaborations with universities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Office: Room BA.830, Bajuwarenstraße 4
E-mail: [email protected]
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Academic Positions
| Since 10 / 2022 | Professor for Spatial Dimensions of Cultural Processes at the University of Regensburg |
| 10/2020 - 09/2022 | Acting Professor for Spatial Dimensions of Cultural Processes at the University of Regensburg |
| 03/2015 – 09/2017 | Olympia Morata Fellow, Heidelberg University |
2011 – 2012, 2014 – 2015 | Spokesperson of the subproject Transcultural Studies (Zukunftskonzept) |
| 10/2010 – 09/2017 | Junior Research Group Leader in the Excellence Research Group From the Caribbean to North America and Back: Processes of Transculturation in Literature, Popular Culture and the New Media with four doctoral researchers, Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies (Excellence Initiative) |
| since 10/2008 | Assistant Professor, Institute for Translation and Interpreting (IÜD), French Section (Cultural studies and literary studies), Heidelberg University |
| 04/2008 – 08/2008 | Teaching Assistant, Institute for Political Science, Heidelberg University |
| 09/2004 – 08/2006 | Lectrice German Studies, École Normale Supérieure (LSH) Lyon |
Educational Background
| 12/2020 | Habilitation awarded, Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures, Heidelberg University Field of venia legendi: Romance Cultural Studies and Literary Studies Habilitation thesis: "Zwischen De- und Reterritorialisierung. Raumproduktion zeitgenössischer US-karibischer Diasporaliteraturen" (Between De- and Re-Territorialization: The production of space in contemporary US-Caribbean diasporice literatures) |
| 08/2004 – 06/2008 | Dr. phil. in Romance Studies, Heidelberg University, »Das weibliche Subjekt in der Krise. Laclos’ Liaisons dangereuses« |
| 09/2007 – 09/2008 | Associated Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School "Gender in Motion. Wandlung und Persistenz in den Geschlechterverhältnissen", University of Basel |
| 10/1998 – 02/2004 | Magister Artium in Romance Studies (French and Hispanic Literature and Culture) and Sociology, Heidelberg University |
| 09/1997 – 06/1998 | Studies in French Literature, Université Montpellier III |
Research
Research
Research Profile
As a researcher in cultural studies, I focus on the cultures and media of Europe and the Americas. I have developed an interdisciplinary approach that explores the disciplinary borderlands and boundaries of cultural studies, sociology and area studies. My focus lies in particular in spatial theories, transculturality and regional/global developments. I have particular regional expertise relating to the cultures and media (primarily texts) emerging from the Caribbean region and its North American Diasporas today, and to Enlightenment-era and contemporary France.
I am particularly interested in questions relating to social spaces, cultural exchanges and global entanglements in the context of postcolonial, economic and social power relations. My work also examines forms of cultural expression taking place as part of migration and processes of social change. In my research I explore (post)colonial and diasporic texts and cultures of the Americas both from a transcultural perspective and in terms of their regional and glocal relations.
Research Focus
Theory
- (Trans)Area Studies
- Spatial Studies, primarily media-based constructions of space in the context of diaspora and migration
- Transculturality and Transculturation
- Gender Studies
Cultural Spaces
- Translingual Caribbean and Caribbean diasporas
- Rewritings and adaptations of the works of Classical Antiquity in (post)colonial Romance-speaking areas
- Negotiations of anthropology and social change in and by texts since the French Enlightenment
Publications
Anne Brüske's key publications include:
Zwischen De- und Reterritorialisierung. Raumproduktion zeitgenössischer US-karibischer Diasporaliteraturen. Mimesis. Berlin, Boston: DeGruyter, 2024.
doi.org/10.1515/9783111339252 (external link, opens in a new window)
with Anja Bandau und Natascha Ueckmann, eds., Reshaping Glocal Dynamics of the Caribbean. Relations et Déconnexions – Relaciones y Desconexiones – Relations and Disconnections. Heidelberg: heiUP, 2018.
doi.org/10.17885/heiup.314.534 (external link, opens in a new window)
with Karoline Thaidigsmann. "Horror, not Nostalgia. Socialism, Diaspora and Family in Cuban and Polish Post-Millennium Graphic Novels." Family Constellations and Transnational Historical Imaginaries in Contemporary Ibero-American and Slavic Literatures, Jobst Welge, Ángela Caldéron Villarino and Anna Artwińska, eds. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. 27-61.
doi.org/10.1515/9783111208664-003 (external link, opens in a new window)
"Recreating the World of the Cuban Revolution: Geopolitical Imagination and Entangled Spaces in the Graphic Memoir Adiós mi Habana (2017)." Literary Landscapes of Time. Multiple Temporalities and Spaces in (Latin) American and Caribbean Literatures. Jobst Welge and Juliane Tauchnitz, eds., Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. 49-76.
doi.org/10.1515/9783110762273-004 (external link, opens in a new window)
Books
Das weibliche Subjekt in der Krise. Anthropologische Semantik in Laclos’ Liaisons dangereuses, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2010. [Dissertation, 300 p.]
Zwischen De- und Reterritorialisierung. Raumproduktion zeitgenössischer US-karibischer Diasporaliteratur 2020. [Habilitation text, 561 p.]
DOI: 10.1515/9783111339252
Edited Works
with Miko Iso, Aglaia Wespe, Kathrin Zehnder, Andrea Zimmermann. Szenen von Widerspenstigkeit. Geschlecht zwischen Affirmation, Subversion und Verweigerung., Frankfurt / Main: Campus 2011.
with Herle-Christin Jessen. Dialogues transculturels dans les Amériques / Diálogos transculturales en las Américas, Tübingen: Narr 2013.
with Wiebke Beushausen, Ana-Sofia Commichau, Patrick Helber, Sinah Kloß. Caribbean Food Cultures: Culinary Practices and Consumption in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas, Bielefeld: Transcript 2014.
with Caroline Lusin. One continent / to another. Cultural Flows and Poetic Form in the South Asian and Caribbean Diaspora. Focus Issue of the Journal Atlantic Studies / Global Currents. London: Routledge 13/2016.
with Anja Bandau and Natascha Ueckmann. Reshaping (G)local Dynamics of the Caribbean. Relations et Déceonnexions – Relaciones y Desconexiones – Relations and Disconnections, Heidelberg: heiUP 2018.
Forthcoming:
with Ingrid Simson and Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius. Antígonas del Sur. Culturas de protesta en América Latina, Berlin: tranvía 2021.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Weibliche Subjektivität in den Liaisons Dangereuses. Das Zusammenspiel von Anthropologie und Gesellschaftsstruktur beim Scheitern der weiblichen Figuren”, Judith Klinger, Susanne Thiemann, eds., Geschlechtervariationen. Gender-Konzepte im Übergang zur Neuzeit., Potsdam: Universitätsverlag 2006, 275-298.
“Fiktionale Selbstentwürfe, Fremdentwürfe und Normativität der Frau in den Liaisons dangereuses”, Dagmar Schmelzer, Marina O. Hertrampf, eds.: Handeln und Verhandeln. Forum Junge Romanistik, Bonn: Romanistischer Verlag 2007, 313-333.
“Gender, Sex & Co. in der jungen Romanistik – Vorhang auf für neue, ‚ex-zentrische’ Forschungsperspektiven”, Lidia Becker, Alex Demeulenaere, Christine Felbeck, eds.: Grenzgänger und Exzentriker, München: Meidenbauer 2010, 185-189.
“Gender, genre, Geschlecht dans les approches françaises et allemandes du roman des Lumières”, HeLix 2 (2010), 22-48.
"Widerspenstige Utopien in Houellebecqs Particules élémentaires«, Anne Brüske, Isabel Miko Iso, Aglaia Wespe, Kathrin Zehnder, Andrea Zimmermann, eds.: Szenen von Widerspenstigkeit. Geschlecht zwischen Affirmation, Subversion und Verweigerung. Politik der Geschlechterverhältnisse Frankfurt / Main Campus 2011, 99-118.
"Rezension von Diasporische Bewegungen im transatlantischen Raum – Diasporic Movements – Movimientos Diaspóricos (ed. Stefanie Kron, Birgit zur Nieden, Stephanie Schütze, Martha Zapata Galindo 2010)”, Iberoamericana 11.43 (2011), 232-235.
“Ecriture et œuvre d’art dans la littérature de la diaspora caribéenne nord-américaine. Formes et fonctions de l’autoréférentialité transmédiale chez Edwige Danticat et Junot Díaz”, Ottmar Ette, Anne Kraume, Werner Mackenbach, Gesine Müller, eds.: Caribe como paradigme. Convivencias y coincidencias históricas, culturales y estéticas, Berlin: Edition tranvía 2012, 203-219.
“Transkulturelle Räume im US-karibischen Bildungsroman? Kulturkontakt und sozialer Raum bei Judith Ortiz Cofer, Virgil Suárez und Loida Maritza Pérez”, Daniel Graziadei, Louisa Söllner, eds.: Über Grenzen sprechen. Mehrsprachigkeit in Europa und der Welt, Würzburg: Könighausen & Neumann 2012, 193-211.
“Saving a (not so) brown woman from brown men – Das verhinderte Witwenopfer Aoudas”, Jörg Dünne and Kirsten Kramer, eds.: Weltnetzwerke – Weltspiele. Jules Vernes Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, Konstanz: KUP 2013, 81-89.
“Rezension von Journeys of Formation. The Spanish American Bildungsroman (Yolanda A. Doub, 2010)”, Iberoamericana 12.45 (2012), 226-228.
“Littératures transculturelles à Montréal et à New York”, Anne Brüske, Herle-Christin Jessen, eds.: Dialogues transculturels dans la nouvelle Romania, Diálogos transculturales en la nueva Romania, Tübingen: Narr 2013, 7-25.
“Entre Nueva York y la isla. La memoria del espacio insular en la literatura de la diáspora dominicana”, Anne Brüske, Herle-Christin Jessen, eds.: Diálogos transculturales en la nueva Romania, Tübingen: Narr 2013, 89-104.
“L’amour au temps de l’évolution sociale. Sociabilité, anthropologie et genre dans Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd et Les Liaisons dangereuses”, Maximilian Gröne, Rotraud v. Kulessa eds.: L’urbanité dans les textes de sociabilité du XVIe siècle jusqu’à la Révolution française, Frankfurt / Main: Peter Lang 2013, 101-123.
“Der geschriebene Mann. Konstruktionen des ‚unmoralischen’ Geschlechtes im Werk Isabelle de Charrières”, Renate Möhrmann, eds.: Frauenphantasien. Zum ‚imaginierten Mann’ von Film- und Buchautorinnen, Stuttgart: Kröner 2014, 110-144.
“The Caribbean (on the) Dining Table: Contextualizing Culinary Cultures”. Wiebke Beushausen, Anne Brüske, Ana-Sofia Commichau, Patrick Helber, Sinah Kloß, eds.: Caribbean Food Cultures. Culinary Practices and Consumption in the Caribbean and its Diasporas, Bielefeld: Transcript 2014, 11-24.
with Wiebke Beushausen: “Writing from lòt bò dlo: Vodou Aesthetics and Poetics in Edwidge Danticat and Myriam Chancy”, Celucien L. Joseph, Asselin Charles, Schallum Pierre, Nixon S. Cleophat, eds.: Vodou in Haitian Memory. The Idea and Representation of Voudou in Haitian Imagination, New York: Lexington, 2016, 143-171.
“ ‘One Continent/To Another’: Cultural flows and poetic form in the South Asian and Caribbean diasporas – and beyond", Atlantic Studies – Global Currents, 13/4 2016, 33-44. [with Caroline Lusin]
“Kurzrezension von Narrations genrées (Lieselotte Steinbrügge und Suzan Van Dijk, eds.) Romanische Forschungen 128/2016, 296-298.
“Cuerpos diaspóricos, cuerpos recalcitrantes”, Claudia Gronemann, Adriana López-Labourdette, Cornelia Sieber, eds.: Cuerpos extra / ordinarios, Barcelona: Linkgua 2017, 37-54.
“Koloniale Erblast: Raum, Geschlecht, Ethnizität in Karibik und Diaspora”, Ruperto Carola 10, 2017, 140-148.
“Re/escrituras de una Historia negra femenina desde Puerto Rico. las Negras de Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro y Fe en disfraz de Mayra Santos Febres en la tradición del neo-slave narrative”, Gisela Febel, Natascha Ueckmann, eds.: Pluraler Humanismus? Négritude und Negrismo weiter gedacht, Wiesbaden: Springer 2017, 207-232.
“Reseña: Schmutz. Ästhetik und Epistemologie eines Motivs in Literaturen und Kulturtheorien der Karibik (Isabel Exner, 2017)”, Mitologías hoy 17, junio (2018).
“Reshaping Glocal Dynamics of the Caribbean. Introduction”, Reshaping (G)local Dynamics of the Caribbean. Relations et Déceonnexions – Relaciones y Desconexiones – Relations and Disconnections, Heidelberg: heiUP 2018, 1-27. [mit Anja Bandau und Natascha Ueckmann]
“Reading postcolonial fiction of spaces with Henri Lefebvre: Ernesto Quinonez’ Bodega Dreams”, Jenny Bauer, Robert Fischer, eds.: Perspectives on Henri Lefebvre. Theory, Practices, and (Re-)Readings, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018, 178-206.
“Anthropologie und Affekt im Feenmärchen. Madame d’Aulnoys ›La Princesse Carpillon‹”: Giulia Agostini, Herle-Christin Jesse, eds.: Pathos. Affektformationen in Philosophie, Kunst und Literatur, München: Fink 2020, 181-207.
In print:
“Death and Diaspora in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker”, Jana Braziel, Nadège Clitandre, eds.: The Bloomsbury Companion to Edwidge Danticat, 2020, New York, London: Bloomsbury.
Forthcoming:
“Entre dé- et reterritorialisation et post-mémoire. Les Antigones franco-algériennes”, Ingrid Simson, Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius, Anne Brüske, Antígona del Sur; Berlin: tranvía 2020, N.N.
“Adaptaciones de Antígona en el Caribe: Antígona-Humor (1968) entre tragedia y comedia”, Ingrid Simson, Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius, Anne Brüske, Antígona del Sur; Berlin: tranvía 2020, N.N.
“Espaces claustrophobes. La production d’espaces intérieurs dans l’œuvre de Leïla Slimani”, Kirsten Van Hagen, Martina O. Hertrampf, Hannah Nohe, eds.: An der Schnittstelle der Welten: Französischsprachige Erzählungen von migrierenden Frauen im 21. Jahrhundert, München: AVM. N.N.
Teaching and Science Communication
Teaching
Summer Semester 2025
Research Sabbatical
Winter Semester 2024/25
- Antisemitismuskritik und Rassismuskritik zusammen denken // Countering both: Antisemitism and Racism
- Das Anthropozän graphisch erzählen: Novelas gráficas ecocríticas de Gran Caribe
- Oberseminar
- Master- und Bachelorkolloquium
- Raumtheorien und Kulturwissenschaften
- Raumtheorien und Kulturwissenschaften (Übung)
- Ringvorlesung "Intersektionalität von den Amerikas aus gedacht" (mit einführendem Workshop)
Summer Semester 2024
- Bachelor-, Master- und Promovierendenkolloquium
- Das Anthropozän graphisch erzählen: Novelas gráficas ecocríticas de Gran Caribe
- Postkoloniale und dekoloniale Theorie
- Postkoloniale und dekoloniale Theorie - Übung zur Vorlesung
- Lateinamerika - Osteuropa: Postsozialistische und postkoloniale Perspektiven
Winter Semester 2023/24
- Raumtheorien und Kulturwissenschaften
- Graphic Novels des Mittleren Ostens. Diasporaperspektiven und Migrationsnarrative
- Oraliture et performance dans les Amériques francophones: Guadeloupe, Martinique, Haïti et Québec (Franz.KuWi)
- Workshop im Rahmen des Seminars "Oraliture und Performance"
Summer Semester 2023
- Prosemninar – Thursday, 14-16 Uhr | 36049 « Les néo-québécois haïtiens et leur production culturelle » : Die Verhandlung lokaler, nationaler und transnationaler Identitäten in Québec (with Dagmar Schmelzer und Jochen Mecke) 2 SWS
Winter Semester 2022/23
- Caribbean Diaspora Spaces in the United States and Canada
- Roman graphique et bandes dessinées francophones. Entwicklung, Themen, Transformationen
- Theory of Space and Cultural studies
- Theory of Space and Cultural studies (Exercise)
Summer Semester 2022
- Seminar: Menschenrechte in Lateinamerika aus historischer Perspektive. Von der Brevísima Relación zum zeitgenössischen Testimonio
- Vorlesung: Postkoloniale und dekoloniale Theorie
- Postkoloniale und dekoloniale Theorie - Übung zur Vorlesung
- Seminar: Remembering and Forgetting Colonialism and Slavery in European Public Space
Winter Semester 2021/22
- Seminar: Anthropologie et genre au XVIIIe siècle: Marivaux, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Laclos
- Hauptseminar: Migración y espacios transnacionales en la novela gráfica hispanohablante
- Seminar: Of Ghosts and Zombies. Negotiating Trauma in European and North American Film (Spain, France, Poland, and the USA)
- Vorlesung/Übung: Raumtheorien und Kulturwissenschaften
- Übung: Raumtheorie und neue Paradigmen der Area Studies
Summer Semester 2021
- Rethinking Area Studies and Space from the „Global South“ (Lecture Series in collaboration with Joanna Moszczynska)
- Digitale Räume und imaginierte Gemeinschaften aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Sicht (Blockkurs)
Winter Semester 2020/21
- Raumtheorie und Kulturwissenschaften (Spatial Theory and Cultural Studies - Lecture)
- Raumtheorie und neue Paradigmen der Area Studies: Texte und ausgewählte Debatten (Übung zur Vorlesung »Raumtheorie und Kulturwissenschaften) (Spatial Theory and New Paradigms of Area Studies - Practical course accompanying the above lecture)
- Diaspora Cultures in North America / Diasporakulturen in Nordamerika. Caribbean, Latin American and Latinx Cultural Expression in the United States (Seminar)
- Antígona global. Reconfiguraciones de una heroína antigua en Colombia, Chile y Guinea Ecuatorial (Seminar)