Fanny Helena Wehner studied English and German literature in Berlin, Lancaster and New York. Having worked as a DAAD language assistant in Odesa, she obtained an MA in European Literatures at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with a thesis on the subtextual interrelatedness of Vladimir Nabokov's edition of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin and his most famous novel, Lolita. At present, Wehner is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Slavic and Hungarian Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and an associate researcher at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) with the ERC project AFROPEA (Black Narratives of Transcultural Appropriation: Constructing Afropean Worlds, Questioning European Foundations).

Under the cooperation agreement between the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies (FSGS) and EXC 2020, Wehner is concurrently a doctoral candidate at FSGS and a member of Research Area 1: Competing Communities (since 2025).

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Department of Slavic and Hungarian Studies

Winter term 2024/25
Seminar (MA) "Puschkin dekolonial" (with Prof. Dr. Susanne Frank)

Doctoral Research Project: 

Re-Presenting Pushkin, Challenging the Canon – An Afropean Poet at the 'Borders of Europe' (2025–)

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Susanne Frank (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/EXC 2020), Dr. Gianna Zocco (Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, ZfL)

Conferences

"Pushkin for the New Millenium – an Afropean (Re-)Turn?", Panel "Multi-faceted Belongings in Afropean Literatures", 10th European Conference of African Studies, Prague, 26.06.2025