Annegret Richter

Annegret Richter is an academic assistant for French and Spanish literature at the Romanesque Seminar, University of Heidelberg (since October 2023). She serves as Managing Director of the publication series 'Passagen' and 'TKKL – Theory and Critique of Culture and Literature' (since 2023) alongside Prof. Dr. Birgit Mertz-Baumgartner at the University of Innsbruck. Prior roles include research assistant at the Institute of Romance Studies at the Technical University of Dresden (2020–2023) and lecturer at the University of Leipzig and TU Dresden (Winter 2019/20). Her doctoral thesis (2015) focused on colonial Mexican historiography and translation practices, while her current postdoc project analyzes queer subjectivities in Francophone Maghreb literature.

Research Focus:

• Literature of the Maghreb
• Transculturality
• Queer Studies
• Postcolonial Identity Construction
• Migration Narratives
• Medical Humanities

Key Trends in Publications: Richter’s work bridges postcolonial studies, queer theory, and transcultural analysis. Her recent research explores crisis identities in Moroccan-French literature through medical humanities frameworks, earlier publications examine gender metaphors and colonial hybridity in Mexican chronicles.