Kristina Baudemann is an instructor and research associate in the department for English and American Studies at the Europa-Universität Flensburg in Germany. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as SAIL/Studies in American Indian Literatures, Extrapolation, and Transmotion. In 2014, she was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her dissertation project entitled "Signifying Futures: Future Imaginaries in Indigenous North American Literatures and New Media Arts" has won a research grant from the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (the 2017 Juergen-Saße-Award). She is an affiliate researcher of the Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IIF) and Obx Labs for Experimental Media at Concordia University in Montréal. Her research interests include Indigenous North American literatures and cultures, Indigenous Futurisms, thanatology (the study of death, dying, and grieving), science fiction, speculative fiction and the fantastic, as well as postmodern literatures and theory. She is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the EUF-based project "Knowing Tomorrow: Twenty-First Century Native North American Archives of Futurity" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). She has been a peer reviewer for a number of international journals including SAIL (Studies in American Indian Literatures), Transmotion, and MELUS (Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States).

CV

  • 2019-2022: Postdoctoral Research Associate in the DFG (German Research Foundation) Research Project "Knowing Tomorrow 2.0: Twenty-First Century Native North American Archives of Futurity" (Prof. Birgit Däwes, EUF)
  • 2013 - 2019: Ph.D. in American Studies, "Signifying Futures: Future Imaginaries in Indigenous North American Literatures and New Media Arts" (summa cum laude); Committee: Prof. Birgit Däwes (EUF), Prof. Kerstin Knopf (University of Bremen), Hartmut Lutz (Greifswald University/ University of Szczecin, Poland)
  • Since Feb. 2018: Affiliate Researcher with the Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IIF) at Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
  • Feb. 2018: Visiting Researcher with the Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IIF) at Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
  • Oct./Nov. 2017: Visiting Researcher with the Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IIF) at Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
  • Oct. 2017: Visiting Researcher in the Institute of Canadian and Aboriginal Studies at the University of Ottawa, ON
  • Since 2015: Instructor and Research Associate at the Europa-Universität Flensburg in Flensburg, Germany
  • 2014: Fulbright Fellowship, Visiting Researcher in the American Indian Studies Institute at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ, USA
  • 2012-2013: Research Associate and Instructor at the University of Würzburg, Germany
  • 2012: M.A. in English, French, and American Literatures and Cultures, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany