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Prof. Sarah Burnautzki holds a W1 Tenure-Track Professorship for Romance Literature at the University of Heidelberg. She specializes in Francophone literatures of Africa, the African Diaspora, Antilles, and Latin America, with a focus on postcolonial theory, critical race studies, and archival research. Her work bridges literary studies with sociology and anthropology. She leads the BMBF-funded MeAviA project on media antiziganisms and previously directed a Baden-Württemberg Foundation-backed project on postcolonial literary models. Her research includes studies on Brazilian literary canonization and racial discourses in Latin America.
Education: MA from Heidelberg (2009), cotutelle PhD from Heidelberg/EHESS Paris (2014). Awards include the Margarete von Wrangell Program (2015-) and Humboldt Foundation Feodor Lynen fellowship (2016-2017). She serves as Erasmus Representative for French universities and advises doctoral candidates like Thomas Sazpinar. Notable publications include her monograph on racial borders in French literature (2017) and co-edited volumes on postcolonial literary dynamics and authorship studies.
Research Interests:
- Postcolonial and critical race approaches to Francophone/Afro-Latin texts
- Archival methodologies in literary analysis
- Temporalities in modernist/naturalist narratives
- Authorship dynamics across editorial/public spheres
Grants/Projects:
- Elite Program for Postdocs (2017-2022)
- Media Antiziganisms interdisciplinary initiative (2023-)
- Multiple DFG-reviewed projects
Labs/Teams: Active member of the Junge Akademie Mainz since 2019, collaborating with interdisciplinary networks in postcolonial and media studies.
