Tomi Adeaga,  Ph.D. completed her habilitation degree in African Diaspora Studies (2020) at the Department of African Studies, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies where she teaches African and African Diaspora Literature. She also teaches at the Gender Studies department of the University of Vienna, Austria. She co-edited Payback and Other Stories – An Anthology of African and African Diaspora Short Stories (2018). She is the author of Translating and Publishing African Language(s) and Literature(s): Examples from Nigeria, Ghana and Germany (2006). She published a short story called “Marriage and Other Impediments” in African Love Stories; An Anthology (2006). She translated Olympe Bhêly – Quénum’s C’était à Tigony into As She Was Discovering Tigony (2017). She has also published book chapters and articles in literary journals such as “Sexuality, Resilience, and Mobility in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street,” in Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the 21^st Century. Rose Sackeyfio (ed.), (2021); Colonialism and Sexuality in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and Peter Kimani’s Dance of the Jakaranda,” in Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA) (2020). She serves on several editorial boards including the Journal of African Gender Studies (JAGS), and Stichproben; Vienna Journal of African Studies. Her areas of interest include African Gender Studies, African literature studies, African Diaspora Studies, translation and transnational studies.

Dr. Bea de Abreu Fialho Gomes is an African Studies scholar with a focus on Critical Race Studies. Since October 2019, she has been a retired research staff member at the University of Vienna. Until 2019, she was a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Development Research at the University of Vienna. Prior to that, from 1999 to 2012, she held a teaching position at the University of Vienna, initially at the Institute of African Studies and from 2010 at the Institute for Development Research. In these roles, she taught courses in development policy and cooperation, critical race studies, and Creole Studies. Her courses covered topics such as language contact in the context of European expansion and colonial rule, as well as the African diaspora in Creole-speaking regions. In 2022, she co-edited the publication “Anti-/Racism in Austria: Perspectives, Practices, Positionings”, a special issue of Stichproben – Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien (43/2022), with Miša Krenčeyová.

Christian Filko, BEd BA MA MA, has studied History, German Studies, Political Science, and Global Citizenship Education. After several years working as a secondary school teacher of German, History, and Political Education, he is now a lecturer and training coordinator at the University College of Teacher Education Vienna. His research focuses include human rights education and historical-political education with an emphasis on migration and globalization, as well as Global Citizenship Education and issues of inclusion and exclusion in the context of multilingualism and migration.

Christa Markom teaches and conducts research at the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology and the Institute for Educational Sciences at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses include educational anthropology, digital inclusion, and studies on racism and intersectionality in Austria. In her doctoral thesis, she examined racism within the core of Austrian society. Additionally, she has been conducting research on educational materials for many years and co-authored the book “Die Anderen im Schulbuch: Rassismen, Exotismen, Sexismen und Antisemitismus in österreichischen Schulbüchern” (Braumüller Verlag) with Heidi Weinhäupl in 2007.

Amadou-Lamine Sarr, holds a PhD in political science and history from the University of Vienna. Currently he works as lecturer at the Institute for History and the Institute for International Development at the University of Vienna. Research interests: Global history, nationalism (especially African nationalisms), theories of emancipation, fundamentalism, racism, colonialism and decolonization.