Monika Christine Rohmer

Monika Christine Rohmer is a postdoctoral researcher. Within the project, she puts her focus on philosophizing in African languages, namely Hausa, Pulaar, and Wolof. Further, she is interested in ecosophies on and beyond the African continent. Monika is a transdisciplinary scholar combining intercultural philosophy, applied linguistics, the study of verbal arts, and postcolonial theories.

Monika pursued her PhD in the framework of the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS). In her PhD, she compared conceptualisations and metaphors of water at the Senegalese Coast with a focus on French and Wolof. At the University of Bayreuth, she was the assistant of Prof. Dr. Alena Rettová, chair of African and Afrophone Philosophies, and Prof. Dr. em. Dymitr Ibriszimow, chair Afrikanistik II. Before obtaining her MA in African Verbal and Visual Arts at the University of Bayreuth, she majored in Political Science in her undergraduate at Leipzig University, during which she did a semester abroad UATM Gasa Formation Cotonou, Bénin.

“Philosophising in Wolof: Beyond Translation,” phronimon (26), 2025

“The sea as a challenge for ecolinguistic research : proposing a comparative cognitive framework to unravel differences in conceptualisation,” Brno Studies in English 51 (1), 2025

“Décoloniser l’écolinguistique ! Premières leçons d’une recherche exploratoire sur les perceptions et catégorisations de l’eau au Sénégal,” Notes Africaines (217-218), 2024.

“Regards interdisciplinaires sur la recherche écolinguistique au Sénégal,” with Mouhamed Abdallah Ly, Notes Africaines (217-218), 2024.

“Quand la traduction ne coule pas: l’eau dans les ODD en français et en wolof,” with Mouhamed Abdallah Ly and Beulleup Mouhamadou Ndao, Djiboul 2, 2023, 40-59.

“Linguistic relativity and environmental sustainability: Lessons drawn from a double language approach to the World Water Forum 2022 in Senegal,” Language & Ecology, 2023.

“Beyond human-centredness. An ocean-centred reading of Celles qui attendent (Fatou Diome), Le pagne léger and Patera (Aïssatou Diamanka-Besland),” University of Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers 43 (BIGSASworks! 14), 2023.

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