Johanna Lederer holds an MA in North American Studies. She is a PhD candidate in the research training group “Practicing Place: Socio-Cultural Practices and Epistemic Configurations” at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. During her master’s program, her research on representations of Indigenous activism in Canadian media earned her the Jürgen and Freia Saße Award which brought her to Toronto for a research stay. Her dissertation “Telling Indigenous Futures through Stories: Creative Placemaking in Literature and the Arts” explores Indigenous futurist placemaking practices in a Turtle Island context as storytelling. She co-organized a workshop on “Studying Indigenous Literatures and Cultures of Turtle Island in Europe: Questions of Methodology, Positionality, Accountability, and Research Ethics.”