Dr. Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong is the Project Director of “Künstlerische Biographien: Transkulturell” funded by Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre from 2024-2026. Based at the Hochschule für Musik und Theatre (hmt) in Rostock, this international project focuses on archiving the artistic and feminist lives of three professors based in Germany, Uganda, and Brazil through documentary film.

She worked as an Assistant Professor of African Literatures and Cultures with focus on African Drama, Theatre and Performance at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 2012-2023. On a DAAD scholarship, she completed her Ph.D. in African Theatre and Drama at the University of Bayreuth. Besides having taught in her home country in Cameroon and in several universities in Germany before joining Humboldt University in 2012, she has published widely in her field of teaching and research. Based on her work in theatre and performance, she was nominated thrice for the teaching excellence award at the Humboldt University, with an award of the First Faculty prize in teaching excellence conferred on her in 2013.

She currently submitted her Habilitation project at the Humboldt University on “Old Age in African Drama and Theatre: Perspectives, Practices, and Expectations.”  Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong is the current Vice President of the African Theatre Association (AfTA).

• Postcolonial Literatures
• Critical - Theory
• Gender & African feminisms
• Theatre - Criticism
• Drama, Performance & Theatre
• Theatre for Development
• People Cinema
• Old Age and elderhood in Performance and Literatures