Ines Kappert (born 1970 in Ulm)[1] is a German literary scholar, cultural theorist and journalist.

She completed her doctorate in general and comparative literature at the University of Hamburg as Dr. phil.

[4] In the summer of 2015, she succeeded Gitti Hentschel as head of the Gunda Werner Institute together with Henning von Bargen.

Her main topics are feminism, conceptions of masculinity, Syria and displaced persons.

In May 2017, together with Annika Reich, she initiated the literature portal Weiter schreiben for refugee authors from crisis areas.