Linda Meinhardt

linda.meinhardt@uni-erfurt.de

Doctoral Student and Lecturer (Faculty of Philosophy)

Contact

C23 – staff building 1 / Raum 614

Office hours

Please request appointments via email.

Visiting address


Faculty of Philosophy
C23 – staff building 1
Alfred-Weber-Platz 6
99089 Erfurt

Mailing address

Universität Erfurt
Faculty of Philosophy
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt

Linda Meinhardt

Research Interest

  • Indigenous North American Literatures
  • African American Literature and Theater
  • Decolonial Studies
  • Critical Posthumanism
  • Ecocriticism
  • Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurism(s)

Teaching

  • Im/possible Futures: SF, Dystopia, and Utopia (WS 2024/25), (WS 2025/26)
  • Beep Boop: Rebooting the Human (SS 2025)
  • Futurescapes: Science Fiction and the Politics of Tomorrow  (WS 2025/26)

Publications

Conference Presentations

  • “Unsettling Modes of Being: Posthuman Becoming in Contemporary African American and Indigenous North American Literature.” Presentation held at The Regional Colloquium for American Studies, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, 10.04.2026.