Fanny Helena Wehner
Associated researcher in the project Black Narratives of Transcultural Appropriation: Constructing Afropean Worlds, Questioning European Foundations
CV
- since 10/2025 research associate at EXC 2020 Temporal Communities
- since 2025 associated researcher with the project Black Narratives of Transcultural Appropriation: Constructing Afropean Worlds, Questioning European Foundations
- 2024–2025 project scholar at Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2019–2024 MA in European Literatures at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- 2018–2019 DAAD Language Assistant at National I.-I.-Mechnykov University Odesa
- 2013–2018 BA in English and German Literature at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Lancaster University and New York University
Research Interests
- Pushkin Reception
- Translation and Cultural Transfer
Publications
Alexander Pushkin, Afropean Poet, in: ZfL Blog, 25.8.2025
Lectures
- Passing Up Pushkin – Claude McKay and the Soviet Promise, Annual GAPS Conference "Postcolonial Transfers: Translation, Transition, Transformation", Universität Osnabrück, 14.05.2026
- Vladimir Nabokov – A Guide to Berlin, as part of the series „Literarische Heimat Berlin Charlottenburg“ in cooperation with Universität der Künste and Berlin Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Public Library, 07.05.2026
- Mike Phillips’ A Shadow of Myself – Reading a Post-Cold War Thriller through an Afropean Lens, Online Workshop by the CAPONEU-project (The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe) "Literary Politics and Geopolitics", 30.01.2026
- Pushkin for the New Millenium – an Afropean (Re-)Turn?, 10th European Conference of African Studies "African, Afropean, Afropolitan", Charles University (Prague), 26.06.2025
Courses
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Slavic and Hungarian Studies
- Summer semester 2025: Puschkin dekolonial (seminar, with Prof. Dr. Susanne Frank)