Why Are You So Angry?; Anger and Rage in Black Feminist Literature

Anne Potjans has been a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC Consolidator grant project ＂Tales of the Diasporic Ordinary. Aesthetics, Affects, Archives＂ at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since October 2022 and currently works on a postdoctoral project tentatively entitled ＂Night Shift - Queer Subcultural Spaces and the Black Diasporic Experience.＂ Earlier in 2022, she completed her dissertation ＂’Why Are You So Angry?’＂ - The Uses of Rage and Anger in Black Feminist Literature.＂ From 2015 to 2022, Anne Potjans has been a lecturer at the American Studies program at Humboldt, where she has taught a variety of classes in North-American Literature and culture. In 2019 she took part in a faculty exchange with the HONORS program at the University of Washington, where she taught a class on Black German and African American cultural and political connections. She is a joint winner of Peter Lang’s Emerging Scholars Competition ＂New Perspectives in Black Studies.＂