Kerstin Knopf is professor for North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen and director of the Institute for Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies (INPUTS) and the Bremen Institute for Canada and Quebec Studies (BICQS). She is currently president of the International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS, 2021–23). Her main research interests are Indigenous film and literature, postcolonial studies focusing on North America and the Pacific region, blue humanities, postcolonial knowledge systems, and American and Canadian romantic literature.