Gilbert Shang Ndi is Heisenberg Professor of Comparative Literatures and Cultures, with focus on Africa and Latin America, at the University of Bayreuth. He is co-leader Project: Black Atlantic Revisited: African and South American UNESCO-World Heritage Sites and “Shadowed Spaces” of Performative Memory, Cluster of Excellence - Africa Multiple, University of Bayreuth. An alumnus of the Young Colleague Programme of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, he was Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Bayreuth in Germany (2014), where he completed his Habilitation (2022). Gilbert is the author of State/Society: Narrating Transformations in Selected African Novels (2017) and Memories of Violence in Peru and the Congo (2022) and has co-edited Of Worlds and Artworks - A Relational View on Artistic Practices from Africa and the Diaspora(2024); Tracks and Traces of Violence (2017) and Re-Writing Pasts, Imagining Futures: Critical Explorations of Contemporary African Fiction and Theater (2017). In addition to monographs and book chapters, his articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as English in Africa, French Studies in Southern Africa, and Comparative Literature Studies. He is author of two creative works: Letter from America (2019) and The Radio, and Other Stories (2021). He has recently been awarded the Heisenberg Programme by the German Research Foundation and is currently working on a forthcoming book, Bodies in (con)texts: Intersections of Corporality in the Novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Sony Labou Tansi.