Lea Frauenknecht is an academic associate at the Institute for Cultural Policy at the University of Hildesheim, Germany. Since November 2022, she is a coordinator of the DAAD-funded SDG Graduate School “Performing Sustainability. Cultures and Development in West Africa”. Her research interests include critical cultural mediation and critical cultural theory, post- and decolonial discourses on sustainability, gender and queer theory as well as social movements. She studied the binational double bachelor’s degree “German-French Literary and Cultural Studies” at the “Freie Universität Berlin” and the “Université Sorbonne Nouvelle” in Paris. After a stay as a foreign language assistant of the Pedagogical Exchange Service in Higher Education in Montréal, Québec, she studied the German-French double master’s degree “Cultural Mediation” with an artistic focus at the University of Hildesheim as well as at the Aix-Marseille Université.
