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Julia Borst
Julia Borst is currently a postdoctoral researcher and the principal investigator in a research project on ‘The Spanish Black Diaspora: Afro-Spanish Literature of the 20th and 21st Century’, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). She is deputy director of the Institute of Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies (INPUTS) and founding member of the research lab Digital Diaspora at the University of Bremen. In April–September 2021, she was interim full professor in French and francophone literary and cultural studies at the University of Bremen. She holds a Ph.D. in Romance literary studies (University of Hamburg) with a doctoral thesis on contemporary Haitian literature. She was the awardee of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2021, the Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose Academy Prize for the Humanities 2019 and the Berninghausen Prize 2016. She is also the author of a monograph on violence and trauma in contemporary Haitian novels and of various articles in peer-reviewed journals such as French Studies, French Review, Journal of Haitian Studies, Research in African Literatures and Open Cultural Studies.
Contact: University of Bremen, FB 10/Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Universitäts-Boulevard 13, 28359 Bremen, Germany.