David focuses on Indigenous Australian and Canadian narrative writing and his PhD project explores the significance of narrative fiction in the context of environmental and social justice activism in Australia and Canada. He has taught English and Philosophy in different contexts. His research interests include Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Australian and Indigenous Canadian Literature, Ecocriticism, Post-colonial Theory, Discouse Analysis and Cultural Studies, Indigenous research methodologies and decolonization strategies in the humanities.

After studying Theatre, Film and TV Studies, English Studies and German Studies at the University of Cologne, she concluded a PhD project on contemporary Australian film. Published under the title The Adolescent Nation: Re-Imagining Youth and Coming of Age in Contemporary Australian Film (Universitätsverlag Winter 2021) her book looks into ‘coming of age’ as the defining narrative of Australia’s national cinema, deeply rooted in Australia’s construction as a ‘young’ nation.

From 2009-2014 she acted as the administration and organisational assistant for Cologne University’s Dr. R. Marika Visiting Chair of Australian and Indigenous Studies. In 2014, she was granted a DAAD scholarship to conduct research on her PhD project at Monash University.

Victoria has guest edited the genderforum issue ‘Gender Down Under’ and has published several articles on Indigenous Australian Writing and Film. Her research interests include Australian Literature and Film, Post-Colonial Theory, Migration and Refugee Studies, Film Theory, Popular Culture and Psychoanalytic Theory. She is on the Executive of the International Australian Studies Association.

Her thesis was published as Consuming Whiteness. Australian Racism and the ›White Sugar‹ Campaign and examines the entanglement of the political history of Australian nation building with economic, cultural, and social processes and investigates the mechanism of inclusion/exclusion and questions of socio-political organisation in the settler society, with a particular interest in the role of mass media and popular culture in the everyday (re)production of ideology. From 2014 to 2017 she taught at the Leuphana University, Lüneburg, with multiple courses on ›Stereotyping Down Under‹: Class, Gender, Nation and Race in (Post)Colonial Australia, and also on Australian aspects of the ›Intersectionality of Gender and Race in the Discourse of Simianization‹, and ›Social Documentary Photography‹. Currently, she is a Research Fellow at the Heidelberg University, Transcultural Studies, with a post-doc project about multiculturality and racist conflict in north-western Australia: ›Exception or Exemption? The Broome Pearling Industry and the White Australia Policy‹. She is has published several articles on Australian racisms, the question of scientific racism against Indigenous Australians, and consumerism and racism; for instance in her latest publication ›Buy White – Stay Fair. Racist Political Consumerism Down Under‹, in: Oxford Handbook for Political Consumerism, ed. by Magnus Boström, Michele Micheletti and Peter Oosterveer. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2019.  More information on her research and publications can be found here. Individial homepage: stefanieaffeldt.net