Dr.Angela Kölling

Angela Kölling is professor of Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies. Her research focuses on multimodal translating, New Zealand and Pasifika studies, creative nonfiction, Canadian and Nordic literature, transnational Indigenous studies and eco-translation. She is author of the monograph Literature on the Loose (2012, Weidler) and was guest editor of the special issue “Visibility and Translation” (2020, Imaginations). Her most recent book chapters appeared in Literaturunterricht und Krise (2025, Metzler/Springer Nature) and Reading Nature and Culture (2025, transcript). She was also a member of the Eine Uni – Ein Buch “The Whale Rider” von Witi Ihimaera project team (2023, https://eine-uni-ein-buch.uni-mainz.de/) and a contributor for the Voices for Future lecture series of the JGU Zukunftsmodul (2023-2024). She was awarded the Gutenberg Teaching Council Funding for innovative teaching projects 2023-2024 for her course Crisis Translation: The Escape (SoSe 2023). She is an associate member of the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies (since 2025, http://www.obama-institute.com/) and served as a member of the New Zealand Studies Council and book reviews editor for the New Zealand Studies Association (2023-2025). She is also a member of the international collaborative Future Conjunctures Research Group and the Experiential Translation Research Network (https://experientialtranslation.net/). In this context, she contributed to a panel at the EUPOP 2025 in Paris and developed her new research projects "AI and Cognitive Justice" and "Worlding Climate: Curating Translation".