Vanessa Agnew is Professor in the Faculty of Cultural Studies at Technische Universität Dortmund. Agnew is also Associate Director of Academy in Exile and Honorary Professor in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts’ Humanities Research Centre at The Australian National University. Agnew’s Enlightenment Orpheus: The Power of Music in Other Worlds (Oxford, 2008) won the Oscar Kenshur Prize and the American Musicological Society’s Lewis Lockwood Award. The recipient of research grants from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and German Academic Exchange Service, Agnew co-edited Settler and Creole Reenactment (Palgrave, 2010), Criticism 46 (2004) and Rethinking History 11 (2007), Refugee Routes (transcript, 2020), The Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies (Routledge, 2020), and Reenactment Case Studies (Routledge, 2023). The edited volume What We Brought with Us (transcript) will appear in 2024. Agnew is PI on grants from the Mellon Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and Allianz Foundation to support Academy in Exile. In 2022, Agnew launched Ostrakon to publish articles on forced migration and climate issues. Agnew’s co-curated exhibitions include Right to Arrive (Canberra, 2018), Fixing What’s Broken (Berlin, 2023), and What We Brought with Us (Re:Writing the Future Festival, 2021; German Literature Archive Marbach, 2022; Goethe-Institut New York and University of Cincinnati, 2023; and Dengê min tê te? Hörst du mich? Festival für kurdische Exilliteratur, Literaturhaus Berlin, 2024). Agnew’s Wir schaffen das – We’ll Make It (Sefa Verlag, 2021) has been translated into Ukrainian, Arabic, and Farsi. Agnew’s current projects are λεῖμμα (leîmma): Remnantal Responses to Flight and Garden(s) of Refuge.