"Anne Potjans has been a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC Consolidator grant project ""Tales of the Diasporic Ordinary. Aesthetics, Affects, Archives"" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since October 2022 and currently works on a postdoctoral project tentatively entitled ""Night Shift – Queer Subcultural Spaces and the Black Diasporic Experience."" Earlier in 2022, she completed her dissertation ""‘Why Are You So Angry?’"" – The Uses of Rage and Anger in Black Feminist Literature."" From 2015 to 2022, Anne Potjans has been a lecturer at the American Studies program at Humboldt, where she has taught a variety of classes in North-American Literature and culture. In 2019 she took part in a faculty exchange with the HONORS program at the University of Washington, where she taught a class on Black German and African American cultural and political connections. She is a joint winner of Peter Lang’s Emerging Scholars Competition ""New Perspectives in Black Studies."""