As founder of the CMS Research Group on Narratives of Belonging and Migration (https://migration.ubc.ca/research/narratives) I am interested in (practical) decolonial approaches to literature and academia, including Indigenous storywork (Jo-ann Archibald). My past collaborative research projects funded by SSHRC were about “Belonging in Unceded Territories” (PI Antje Ellermann) and on the Politics and Aesthetics of Postmigration (with Moritz Schramm from Southern Denmark University). My publications range from early twentieth-century avant-garde movements and theories of performativity to Postmigration: Aesthetics and Interventions (co-ed. special issue of Crossings, 2023) and “Relational Ethics in German Studies and in the German University Context” (co-ed. Special Issue of Seminar, 2025). Currently, I am preparing a database for a larger collaborative research project on the Austrian-Mexican avant-garde artist Wolfgang Paalen, who was a collector of Indigenous belongings and became a writer in exile. The goal is to develop an inclusive global digital archive of Paalen’s works and collections by co-designing participatory research practices and repositories in accordance with OCAP/CARE principles.