Anne Potjans teaches American literature and culture at the department for English and American Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she currently works on her Ph.D. project “Why Are You So Angry? − The Uses of Rage and Abjection in Black Feminist Literature.” Apart from that she has worked on diasporic connections between African American and Black German feminist autobiographical writing in the post-World War II period and the intersections of Blackness, sexuality, and racial visibility in German film productions. Her research interests are in Black Studies, Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Queer of Color Critique, and Disability Studies.