Dominique Haensell was nominated by Akwugo Emejulu for her impressive work as both an academic and an independent writer and editor. Based in Berlin, Haensell earned her PhD from Freie Universität’s Graduate School of North American Studies with a dissertation on contemporary Afrodiasporic literatures, and also is the acting editor-in-chief of Germany’s leading feminist magazine, Missy, where she has been writing about music, literature, cinema, art, and all its political and Afrofeminist intersections since 2011. Her monograph ‘Making Black History: Diasporic Fiction in the Moment of Afropolitanism’ is forthcoming with De Gruyter. She’s currently working on a hybrid memoir about being Afro-German that also tackles the history of German colonialism and her family’s relationship to German colonial Africa.
