HENRIETTE GUNKEL
Henriette Gunkel is a professor for the transformation of audiovisual media with a particular focus on gender studies and queer theory at the Institute for Media Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. She has been working on the politics of time from a decolonising and queer-feminist perspective, on shared memory work between Namibia and Germany.
She is currently working on a monograph titled Colonial Extractive Remains: Sand, Atmosphere, Memorialization. Key publications include the co-edited volumes Futures & Fictions (with Ayesha Hameed and Simon O'Sullivan, Repeater 2017) and We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions (with kara lynch, transcript 2019), as well as the co-authored book Visual Cultures as Time Travel (with Ayesha Hameed, Sternberg Press 2021).
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