Peggy Piesche

Peggy Piesche, born and raised in the GDR, is a Black German literary and cultural Studies scholar. After teaching in the Netherlands (University of Utrecht) and in the USA (Vassar College and Hamilton College/NY), her current research project “Concepts of Future in African / Diasporic” is embedded in the Academy for Advanced African Studies at Bayreuth University. Piesche’s areas of research include Black Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Diaspora and Translocality, and the Performativity of Memory cultures (Spatiality and Coloniality of Memories). She has published about racialized and Black Images (imagery), colonial history and collective memories as well as Afrofuturism and African/diasporic concepts of the future. On top of that, she works as a transcultural coach for critical whiteness reflection in science, politics and society. She has been an activist-scholar in and to the Black community in Germany since 1990 and an activist and board member of both ADEFRA e.V. (Black Women in Germany) and ASWAD (Association of the Worldwide Study of the African Diaspora) since 2016.