Prof. Dr. Susanne Stemmler was our Visiting Professor in 2013. Together with scholars and colleagues from the Graduate School she curated the Graduale which took place from October 12^th to 13^th 2013. Her background is in literature and cultural studies and allows her to work in various scientific or artistic contexts. From 2008 to 2011 she has been head of the Department for Literature, Science, Society at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, where she has been curating an international science and literature program. She wrote a PhD on Topografien des Blicks. Eine Phänomenologie literarischer Orientalismen des 19. Jahrhunderts in Frankreich (2004) within the field of French Literature Studies. From 1997 to 2004 she had been teaching Romance Studies as well as Media and Cultural Studies at the University Düsseldorf. Her focus is cultural theory.

Publications: Hip-Hop und Rap in romanischen Sprachwelten. Stationen einer globalen Musikkultur (2007 Lang, Co-Hg.); New York – Berlin. Kulturen in der Stadt (2008 Wallstein, Co-Hg.); Metropolen im Maßstab. Der Stadtplan als Matrix des Erzählens in Literatur, Film und Kunst (2009 transcript, Co-Hg.); Raum – Bewegung Passage. Postkoloniale frankophone Literaturen (2009 Narr, Co-Hg.); 1989 – Globale Geschichten (2009 Wallstein, Co-Hg.); Multikultur 2.0. Willkommen im Einwanderungsland Deutschland (2011 Wallstein, Hg.); On Rage (2011 Revolver, Co-Hg.); Über Lebenskunst. Utopien nach der Krise (2011 Suhrkamp, Co-Hg.); Translating Hip Hop (2012 Orange Press, Co-Hg.) and is co-editor of Urbane Welten. Texte zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Stadtforschung (transcript). As a literary critic, she writes (among others) for Fikrun. Art & Thought, the Tagesspiegel and Deutschlandradio Kultur.