Introducing Kristina Baudemann, IIF Visiting Researcher

Hi! My name is Kristina Baudemann and I am an instructor, research assistant and Ph.D. student in the department for English and American Studies at the Europa-Universitaet Flensburg in Germany. I am a visiting researcher at IIF/AbTeC/Obx Labs for two weeks, where I will gather material for my chapter on Indigenous narratives in cyberspace.

My dissertation is entitled “Indigenous North American Futures: Representation and the Future Imaginary in Native American, First Nations and Métis Speculative Arts and Literatures.” In this project, I consider manifestations of futurity, future thinking and future dreaming in Indigenous works across different media (speculative fiction, visual art and painting, and new media works). I have also published on Indigenous futurisms, utopia and science fiction in international scholarly books and journals.

I graduated from the University of Wuerzburg in Germany in 2012. In 2014, I was a Fulbright fellow in the American Indian Studies Institute at the University of Arizona in Tucson. In 2017, my dissertation project was awarded the 2017 Juergen-Saße-Award for research in Aboriginal studies by the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (GKS).

My research interests include North American Indigenous arts and literatures, Indigenous futurisms, science fiction and speculative fiction, utopian studies, postcolonial studies, postmodern culture, as well as post-structuralist studies.

In my free time, I binge-watch TV shows and volunteer in different projects with refugee children. In 2013, I served as a board member for the Stadtjugendwerk der AWO in Wuerzburg, a non-governmental youth organization.

I am happy and grateful to be here atIIF/AbTeC/Obx Labs. I hope to learn as much as I can about its infrastructure and creative processes in the short time I am here, and am happy to share my own knowledge and help wherever I can.