Paula von Gleich is a doctoral candidate of American Studies at the University of Bremen’s Department of Languages and Literatures. She is member of the Institute for Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies and of the doctoral network Perspectives in Cultural Analysis: Black Diaspora, Decoloniality, and Transnationality in Bremen. She received her master’s degree in Transnational Literary Studies and the bachelor’s degree in English-Speaking Cultures at the University of Bremen. The past recipient of a Bridge scholarship from the University of Bremen, she currently receives a doctoral fellowship from the German foundation Evangelisches Studienwerk. Her dissertation focuses on border concepts in contemporary African American theory and narratives of captivity and fugitivity since slavery until today. Her broader research interests include African American and Black diasporic literature and theory, critical race studies, and postcolonial and transnational literary studies.