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Kerstin Knopf is Professor of North American and postcolonial literatures and cultures at the University of Bremen, where her work critically examines coloniality and decolonization processes across global contexts. Her research investigates how hegemonic structures rooted in colonialism, racism, and discrimination shape social, political, and educational systems while centering resistance through Indigenous and anti-colonial scholarship.
Her primary research domains include:
- Indigenous and postcolonial films/literatures worldwide
- German colonialism in the Pacific and neocolonial conditions
- Literatures of marginalized North American groups (Afro-Canadian, Indigenous/ChicanX, prison literature)
- Power relations in knowledge production and Indigenous epistemologies
- Contradiction studies as analytical framework for global complexities
Prof. Knopf leads the RTG Contradiction Studies research group with doctoral and postdoctoral scholars from Germany, Nigeria, India, Turkey, and USA. Their collaborative projects span African migrant literature, women's literature in Africa, hunger studies, Turkish women's cinema, ChicanX film, German-American poetry, and condemned female figures in North America. She actively centers anti-colonial and anti-racist scholarship while acknowledging academic asymmetries in the global landscape.
Her work emphasizes detecting macro/micro-contradictions in hegemonic practices to counter Eurocentric norm-setting, advocating for pluriversal knowledge production through critical engagement with colonial legacies and resistance movements across settler-colonial states.
