The anthology 'Gender Studies Otherwise' is published by the Decolonization working group of the association for Gender Studies. The aim of the volume is to document debates and reflections on experiences with decolonization projects in teaching, research, and institutions, and to share and promote decolonial, antiracist visions of Gender Studies. At the book launch, editors and authors speak about the objective of the volume, inclusions and exclusions in and the state of Gender Studies in Germany, as well as the relevance of decolonizing practices.
The editors and contributors Marianne Schmidbaur, Sheila Ragunathan, Denise Bergold-Caldwell und Christine Vogt-William will be present.
Denise Bergold-Caldwell, Dr. phil., is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck within the CGI. She is an education researcher with a particular focus on gender studies. Her research interests include theories of care, as well as theoretical investigations of education and subjectivation from a decolonial perspective or within the framework of Black Studies. She has served as a visiting lecturer and guest professor at the University of Flensburg and the University of Vienna. She is a regular editor of the journal GENDER. Bergold-Caldwell, Denise / Blum, Rebekka / Dangelat, Marina / Grenz, Juno / Maurer, Susanne / Thon, Christine (eds.) (2025): Pedagogy and Gender as the Subject of Political Struggles: An Analysis of Right-wing, Anti-feminist and Racist Discourses. Leverkusen-Opladen: Barbara Budrich Publishers.
Inka Greusing, PhD, is a qualified engineer and gender researcher. As a research associate at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women’s and Gender Studies (ZIFG) at TU Berlin, she is responsible for the conception and management of Techno-Club; she conducts research and teaches on feminist academic culture studies in engineering and on power structures in the natural and technical sciences. She is a founding member of the Professional Association for Gender Studies and of the Decolonisation Working Group within the association.
Sheila Ragunathan (she/her) is a research assistant on the “Care Responsibilities (at) the University (SoHoch)” project at Bielefeld University. She is interested in intersectional critiques of power as an interdisciplinary research perspective and political practice. She is completing her PhD in Education on practices of critical subject formation in the context of political education from a subjectification theory perspective. She is also a member of the editorial board of the journal “Betrifft Mädchen*”, the journal for girls’*/STEM work published by LAGM*ANRW. In this capacity, she was responsible, together with Jaar Boskany, for the latest special issue (01/26) entitled “Disability and & Racism”.
Marianne Schmidbaur, Dr. phil., was Research Director until 2022 and, most recently, Executive Director of the Cornelia Goethe Centre for Gender Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. In 2015, she co-founded the Decolonisation Working Group within the Professional Association for Gender Studies and served as its Deputy Spokesperson until 2020. From 2013 to 2021, she was involved in the planning and organisation of the Angela Davis visiting professorships and, from 2019 to 2021, in the International Frankfurt Summer and Winter Schools on Decolonisation and Feminisms. Her research focuses on gender studies, (queer) feminist theory, the history and theory of feminist movements, and the sociology of care.
Christine Vogt-William Dr. phil., is a literary and cultural studies scholar active in the fields of Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Decolonial Theory. Her research interests encompass, among other things, Black and South Asian diasporic literatures, science fiction, Gothic and fantasy, critical diversity approaches in higher education institutional cultures and contexts. She had been interim professor for Postolonial and Gender Studies in the English and American Studies Department at Humboldt University, Berlin (2014 - 2017). She was Director of the Gender and Diversity Office with the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence (2019 – 2025) at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. She recently co-edited and contributed to a volume on decolonising gender studies in German higher education (Gender Studies otherwise? Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag. 2025). Her current research project concerns intersectional perspectives on biological twinship and complex embodiments in contemporary Anglophone novels.