Henriette Gunkel, Ph.D. lectures at the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths University of London. Between 2008 and 2013, she worked in various teaching and research positions at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, New York, the Anglophone and African Literature Department at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, Germany, the University of Fort Hare, South Africa, and the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London, UK.

She was a guest (in 2017) at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies where she was as part of the BIGSAS Subproject 4, “Concepts of Future in Media Spaces”/ Hauntology Work Group and she presented a lecture on “Hauntology and Afrofuturism” – Ghosts and Zombies – the formless matters. She also did a research on a book project tentatively titled “The Chronopolitical Implications of the Africanist Science Fictional Interventions”

Henriette is an ardent writer with many publications. She is currently working on a monograph that focuses on African science fictional interventions, and also co-authoring a book titled, “Visual Cultures as Time Travel’ in collaboration with a colleague, Ayesha Hameed.