Peggy Piesche is a literary and cultural scholar. She has published about racialized gazes, colonial history, and collective memories. Piesche is co-editor of Mythen, Masken und Subjekte (2005), a critical whiteness study, and Euer Schweigen schützt Euch nicht (2012) on Audre Lorde and the Black women’s movement in Germany and is an active member of ADEFRA (Black Women in Germany). She taught at the University of Bayreuth, the University of Utrecht and at Vassar and Hamilton College in New York.

As of August 2020