Meet the Team

Peri Sipahi (she/her) is a founding member of [re]frame. She is research associate at the DFG-Research Training Group 2291 Contemporary/Literature at the University of Bonn, where she is also a PhD student. Her PhD project is concerned with the critique of dominant colonial rhetoric of time-centred discourses surrounding the Anthropocene present in anticolonial climate fiction. She holds degrees from the University of Bonn and the University of Oxford. Peri Sipahi was a co-organiser of the 2022 Postcolonial Narrations Forum Postcolonial Matters of Life and Death and is a member of the DFG-funded research network “Energy and Literature” as well as the GAPS advisory board.
Nadine Ellinger (she/her) is a founding member of [re]frame. She is a research assistant at the University of Augsburg, Germany, where she teaches in the field of Anglophone Literatures and Cultural Studies with a focus on African and African diasporic fiction and film. Her PhD project, with the working title “Be(com)ing Mothers: Complicating Motherly Figures in African(a) Fiction,” explores the ambivalences and complexities of motherly figures and discourses on motherhood as represented in contemporary works by African and African diasporic writers, specifically interrogating transnational currents and entanglements.


Danica Stojanovic-Schaffrath is a founding member of [re]frame. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Professorship for English literature and culture at the University of Graz. Originally from Belgrade, where she completed her BA and MA, she moved to Augsburg in pursuit a doctoral degree. She recently completed her PhD on British fantasy on stage and is currently negotiating the new genre and era in her postdoctoral research. Her current research focuses on examining ways in which social criticism is expressed in early modern literature written by women. Her other research interests include metamodernism, postmodernism, modernism, postcolonial studies, adaptation studies, transmedia storytelling, and intermediality.