Guest Professors in 2025

In 2025, the Department of English and American Studies hosts the Potsdam Postcolonial Chairs. Internationally renowned scholars will join the Department as Guest Professors to teach and research together with their Potsdam colleagues.

Prof. Dr. Katrina Schlunke

Katrina Schlunke is Associate Professor at the University of Tasmania and the University of Sydney, Australia. She is interested in thinking and writing about Indigenous (Australian) studies, (popular) cultural history, critical theory, ecocriticism and has an ongoing interest in fictocriticism, material fiction and queering the postcolonial. She will teach the seminar "Unnatural Histories" in the summer semester 2025.

Prof. Dr. Satish Poduval

Satish Poduval is Professor of Cultural Studies at the English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad, India. His research interests include film and media studies as well as critical theory, focussing on connections and differences between Western and (South) Asian approaches. He will teach the seminar "Just Looking - Visual Cultures in Contemporary India" in the summer semester 2025.