The Chair of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies bridges Africa and Latin/South America and transcends linguistic boundaries by focusing on literatures in Spanish, Portuguese, English, and French in a unique way. Based on a relational approach, it combines African studies with a focus on transatlantic interconnections and complex relationships in the Global South in a unique way. This regional connection opens up a view of literary, theoretical, and philosophical exchanges between creative practices and postcolonial and decolonial approaches between Africa, South America, and the Caribbean, as well as their relationship to Europe and other global networks. The professorship is peculiar in that it not only builds bridges between the two continents of the Global South, but above all transcends language barriers, takes into account a multitude of creative practices, and thus rethinks comparative literature beyond the Western canon and its focus on the West and its national philologies. ​