María Ignacia Schulz Afro-Colombian-German researcher, writer and translator. PhD candidate in Humanities and Digital Society at the International University of La Rioja and member of the GREMEL Research Group at the same university. She holds a Master's degree in Spanish and Latin American Literature (International University of La Rioja) and studied Linguistics and Literature at the University of Cartagena (Colombia), where she also taught Colombian literature, among other subjects. She is an associate researcher for the ERC Starting Grant Project AFROEUROPECYBERSPACE (University of Bremen) and a member of the Research Group on Africas and Diasporas: Literary and Cultural Imaginaries at the University of Alcalá.

Her research interests include identity constructions, Hispanic Afro-Caribbean literatures, black and Afro-Caribbean feminisms, and Afro-cyberactivism in the Spanish-speaking world. In 2011, she co-founded the literary magazine alba lateinamerika lesen, where she was co-editor and editor until 2019.

Her texts have been published in anthologies, including La urgencia del consuelo. Cartas de mujeres colombianas (Cero Squema, 2020) and De fuego y tiempo: el cuento afrocolombiano contemporáneo (Lugar Común, 2023). Together with Daphne Nechyba, she has translated poems by Shirley Campbell Barr into German under the title Vollkommen schwarz / Rotundamente Negra. This work was funded by the German Translation Fund (Deutscher Übersetzerfonds).

María Ignacia is an author and editor @Literatur.Review.