Dr. Lisa Brunke

October 2026–March 2027

Visiting Scholar at the University of Kassel as part of the DAAD Return Fellowship

09/2022–08/2026

DAAD Lecturer at the Département d’Études germaniques at Aix-Marseille Université

09/2021–08/2022

Research Faculty Member at the Département d’Études germaniques at the Université de Nantes

Nov. 2017–June 2022

Ph.D. at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Dissertation: Banm yon ti limyè – Concepts of Community and Coexistence in French-Language Novels from Haiti after 1986

Conducted as part of the DFG project “Transatlantic Circulation and Transformation of Ideas: The Impact of the Enlightenment on Modern Francocaribbean Literatures”

Grade: magna cum laude

10/2019–11/2019

Research stay in Haiti, funded by a DAAD short-term fellowship

03/2018–11/2020

Research Employee at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

DFG Project: Transatlantic Circulation and Transformation of Ideas. The Impact of the Enlightenment on Modern Francocaribbean Literatures

Nov. 2017–Feb. 2018

Research Employee in the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies at the University of Bremen

Oct. 2012–June 2017

Master’s degree in Transnational Literary Studies (M.A.), University of Bremen

Areas of Focus: Theater and Film

August 2014–December 2014

Erasmus exchange at the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (Martinique, France)

Oct. 2013–Feb. 2014

Internship at La Grande Maison de Dib, Tlemcen (Algeria), funded by a DAAD-PROMOS scholarship

Oct. 2008–May 2012

Studied German Language and Literature and Political Science at Leibniz University Hannover

Haitian Literature of the 19th–21st Centuries

Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Theories

Feminist Theories

Narrative Constructions of Community and Coexistence

The French Enlightenment and the Circulation of Ideas in the Caribbean

Care, Affect, and Narrative Structures

Caribbean and Atlantic Studies

2026

“Beyond 1986: An Attempt to Define Contemporary Engaged Haitian Literature,” Symposium on Political Imaginaries, Aesthetic Strategies, and Current Trends in Francophone Caribbean Literatures, University of Mannheim (by invitation), April 2026.

2025

“On theSun, Community, and Beautiful Human Love—References to Jacques Roumain and Jacques Stephen Alexis in 20th- and 21st-Century Haitian Literature,”guest lecture in the Haitian Literature seminar, Heidelberg University (by invitation), 12/2025.

“Feminist Resistance in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s *Les rapaces* and Gérard Étienne’s *La reine soleil levée*,” 22nd SoCare Conference “Women in the Caribbean: Fragmentations – Crossroads – Interconnections,” Berlin, 11/2025.

“Human Subjectivity and Animal Existence in Patrick Chamoiseau’s *L’esclave vieil homme et le molosse* (1999),” Section: Technology as a Disruptive Factor? Apathic-Empathic Animal-Human Relationships in Literature, 39th Romanistics Conference, University of Konstanz, October 2025.

“Adventure at a Standstill – (Colonial) Remnants and New Trails in Patrick Chamoiseau’s *Die Spur des Anderen*,” Workshop “Narration & Memory in the Wasteocene: Remnants, (End-)Temporalities, Unreliability, University of Wuppertal (by invitation), 08/2025.

2024

“What Remains of the (Haitian) Revolution: Revisiting the Meaning of 1804 through Contemporary Haitian Fiction,” international conference “Narrating Revolutionary Events in Cultural Memory,” University of Siegen (by invitation), November 2024.

Moderator of the panel “Literary Policy of the New Right,” 1st Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Political Aesthetics, Literaturforum im Brechthaus, Berlin, 04/2024.

2023

“Polyphony of Controversy—Néhémy Pierre-Dahomey’s *Combats* and Post-Revolutionary Haiti,” workshop “Literature in Controversy: Dissent as a Productive Category,” Aix-Marseille Université, France, Dec. 2023.

“Construction and Destruction in the Context of Migratory Movements in the Works of Émile Ollivier (*Passages*) and Néhémy Pierre-Dahomey (*Rapatriés*),” 35th Annual Conference of the Haitian Studies Association, Morehouse College, Atlanta, USA, October 2023.

“Creating and Caring for Transgenerational, Transnational, and Supernatural Connections in Kettly Mars’ *L’ange du patriarche*,” 41st Annual West Indian Literature Conference, Kingston, Jamaica, October 2023.

2022

“Banm yon ti limyè? Communitarization and Conceptions of Living Together in Haitian Literature Since 1986,” WIP – Work In Progress Seminar, CRINI, University of Nantes, France, 03/2022.

“Vagabondage, Oiseaux migrateurs, Rapatriés—Figures of Migration in Haitian Novels as Critical Commentaries on Cosmopolitan Worldviews,” 37th Forum for Young Romanists “Romania Diversa – Potentials and Challenges,” University of Vienna, Austria, April 2022.

“Convivial Visions in Post-1986 Haitian Novels,” Caribbean Studies Day, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, June 2022.

2021

Moderator of the panel “The Return of Class in the Present: Riots and Testimony,” workshop “Re-weaving the Threads: Leftist Narratives for the 21st Century,” Literaturforum im Brechthaus (online), February 2021.

2019

“Introductionto Frantz Fanon’s Theoretical Writings,”event series “Romance Studies in the Discourse of Critical French and Romance Studies,” Halle, May 2019.

“Possibilities for Solidarity-Based Communities in Haitian Novels Since 1986,” 17th SoCare Conference “Eccentricity and Excess in Caribbean Textualities, Aesthetics, and Economies,” Saarland University, Saarbrücken, July 2019.

“Writing on the Common Cause? Images of Community and Living Together in *L’île au bout des rêves* by Louis-Philippe Dalembert and *La belle amour humaine* by Lyonel Trouillot,” conference *La littérature haïtienne dans la Caraïbe: Poetics, Politics, Intertextuality, University of Paris 8, France, Nov. 2019.

2018

“Hierarchies of the Gaze in Assia Djebar and Kettly Mars—A Gender-Sensitive Perspective at the Heart of Frantz Fanon’s *Black Skin, White Masks*,” 16th SoCare Conference “Rethinking Europe from the Caribbean: Entanglements and Legacies, University of Freiburg, April 2018.

2016

“Domination Begins Where…—The Ideal of Autonomy and the Question of Subjugation. A Radical Feminist Analysis Against the Background of Jessica Benjamin’s *The Bonds of Love*,” FZS (Free Association of Student Bodies) Summer Camp, Berlin, 2016.

Monograph

Brunke, Lisa. Banm yon ti limyè. Community-Building and Coexistence in Haitian Novels after 1986. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2024.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Brunke, Lisa. “What Remains of the (Haitian) Revolution? Revisiting the Meaning of 1804 through Contemporary Haitian Fiction.” In: Tobias Berneiser (ed.), Narrating Revolutions. The Dynamic Afterlife of Revolutionary Events in Cultural Memory. Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming 2027.

Brunke, Lisa. “Abandonner les routes transatlantiques de la malédiction: L’ange du patriarche de Kettly Mars et la mémoire de la violence.” Nouvelles Études Francophones 40.2 (2026), forthcoming.

Brunke, Lisa. “Convivial Landscapes? The Role of Peripheral Communities in Haitian Novels after the Duvalier Years (1957–1986).” Études francophones 38 (2025).

Brunke, Lisa. “Migratory Birds and Wandering: Representations of Migration Between the Possibility and Impossibility of New Cosmopolitan Visions.” In: Bartl, Tamara et al. (eds.), *Romania Diversa. Contributions to the 37th Forum of Young Romanists*. Munich: AVM.edition, 2024.

Further scholarly articles

Brunke, Lisa. “Transformative Solidarities and Fragile Unions—Forms of Community and Coexistence in *La belle amour humaine* by Lyonel Trouillot and *L’île du bout des rêves* by Louis-Philippe Dalembert.” PhiN. Philologie im Netz 101 (2026), pp. 1–14.

Brunke, Lisa; Wimplinger, C. “Prefaces, Endorsements: Postcolonial Solidarity in the Paratexts of Jean-Paul Sartre and Amilcar Cabral.” In: Undercurrents – Forum for Leftist Literary Studies 19 (2025).

Brunke, Lisa et al. “On Mothers, Homes, and Care.” In: Undercurrents – Literature and Care. Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag, 2023.