'Mineke Schipper' is Emeritus Professor of Intercultural Literary Studies at the University of Leiden. She taught at the Université Libre du Congo and has held visiting professorships in Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso and China She has a Royal Order of Knighthood for building intercultural bridges nationally and internationally, inside and outside the academy' from The Netherlands. She continues her scholarly work at the Leiden University Centre for the Artsin Society (LUCAS).
She is the author of several academic books, essays and novels, including Naked or Covered: A History of Dressing and Undressing Around the World (2017) and Imagining Insiders: Africa and the Question of Belonging (1999). Her internationally acclaimed Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women in Proverbs from Around the World was also nominated in the Eureka Furore category: best female achievement.
