Clarissa Vierke Editor

Ute Fendler holds the chair in "Romance Literary and Comparative Studies" at the University of Bayreuth and is the deputy spokesperson of the “Africa Multiple” Cluster of Excellence. Her current research projects focuses on the Black Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. She recently coedited the volume “Africa-Asia. Multifaceted Engagment in the Contemporary World” (2024).

Clarissa Vierke is Professor of Literatures in African Languages at the University of Bayreuth. Her research focuses on Swahili poetry, Islamic manuscript cultures, and literary entanglements across the Indian Ocean. She co-edited In this Fragile World (2023) and is PI of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence.