Prof Cecile Sandten holds the Chair of English Literatures at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. Her research interests are in Postcolonial Theory and Literatures, Literary Urban Studies, Postcolonial Children’s Literature and Literature for Young Adults (including film), Indian English Literature, Black and Asian British Writing, Shakespeare in comparative perspectives, as well as Narratives of Flight and Asylum.
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Her publications include the monographs Re-Reading Shakespeare in Postcolonial Literatures (2015) and Broken Mirrors: Interkulturalität am Beispiel der indischen Lyrikerin Sujata Bhatt (1998).
She has co-edited several significant volumes in Literary Urban Studies, including:
• Industrialization, Industrial Heritage, De-Industrialization: Literary and Visual Representations of Pittsburgh and Chemnitz (2012)
• Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis (2016)
• Making the City: Transformative Processes in (Post)Industrial Urban Spaces (2025)
She has also edited works related to refugeeism, including:
• Crisis, Risks and New Regionalisms in Europe: Emergency Diasporas and Borderlands (2017)
• A Special Issue of Postcolonial Text on Representing and Narrating Refugeeism, Flight and Asylum (2017)
She is currently involved in two major research projects:
• “Postcolonialism in the Metropolis” (TU Chemnitz Research Initiative “Palimpsestic Spaces”)
• “Narrating Flight and Asylum”
She previously served as President of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) and has been President of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS) since 2024. She is also co-editor of the creative writing journal Turning Pages, published annually at the English Department of TU Chemnitz.