GAPS
@gapsnet.bsky.social
GAPS - Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien).
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📢 Call for Submissions - Deliberate Poetics: Erasure, Materiality, and the Politics of the Page 📚
500 word abstracts and 100 word bio to be submitted by 15 February 2026
#literarystudies #englishliterature #literarytheory #culturalstudies
500 word abstracts and 100 word bio to be submitted by 15 February 2026
#literarystudies #englishliterature #literarytheory #culturalstudies
November 13, 2025 at 4:12 AM
📢 Call for Submissions - Deliberate Poetics: Erasure, Materiality, and the Politics of the Page 📚
500 word abstracts and 100 word bio to be submitted by 15 February 2026
#literarystudies #englishliterature #literarytheory #culturalstudies
500 word abstracts and 100 word bio to be submitted by 15 February 2026
#literarystudies #englishliterature #literarytheory #culturalstudies
📢 Call for Proposals for "Entangled Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Australian Studies"
Submission deadline: 8 December 2025
📍Centre for Australian, Aotearoa and Pacific Studies (CAAPST), University of Cologne, Germany
🗓️13 March 2026
Submission deadline: 8 December 2025
📍Centre for Australian, Aotearoa and Pacific Studies (CAAPST), University of Cologne, Germany
🗓️13 March 2026
October 29, 2025 at 3:57 AM
📢 Call for Proposals for "Entangled Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Australian Studies"
Submission deadline: 8 December 2025
📍Centre for Australian, Aotearoa and Pacific Studies (CAAPST), University of Cologne, Germany
🗓️13 March 2026
Submission deadline: 8 December 2025
📍Centre for Australian, Aotearoa and Pacific Studies (CAAPST), University of Cologne, Germany
🗓️13 March 2026
📢 Call for Seminar Papers: "The Poetics of Affect – Literary Perspectives"
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025
📍Santiago de Compostela, Spain
🗓️31 August – 4 September 2026
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025
📍Santiago de Compostela, Spain
🗓️31 August – 4 September 2026
October 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
📢 Call for Seminar Papers: "The Poetics of Affect – Literary Perspectives"
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025
📍Santiago de Compostela, Spain
🗓️31 August – 4 September 2026
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025
📍Santiago de Compostela, Spain
🗓️31 August – 4 September 2026
📢 Call for Papers "Boko Haram in Nigerian Literature and Cinema"
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025
📍Campus Condorcet-Aubervilliers, France
🗓️29 June–02 July 2026
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025
📍Campus Condorcet-Aubervilliers, France
🗓️29 June–02 July 2026
October 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
📢 Call for Papers "Boko Haram in Nigerian Literature and Cinema"
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025
📍Campus Condorcet-Aubervilliers, France
🗓️29 June–02 July 2026
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025
📍Campus Condorcet-Aubervilliers, France
🗓️29 June–02 July 2026
🚨2026 GAPS Conference announced🚨
"Postcolonial Transfers – Translation, Transition, Transformation"
14–16 May 2026, University of Osnabrück, Germany
⏰ Application Deadline: 6 January 2026
"Postcolonial Transfers – Translation, Transition, Transformation"
14–16 May 2026, University of Osnabrück, Germany
⏰ Application Deadline: 6 January 2026
October 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
🚨2026 GAPS Conference announced🚨
"Postcolonial Transfers – Translation, Transition, Transformation"
14–16 May 2026, University of Osnabrück, Germany
⏰ Application Deadline: 6 January 2026
"Postcolonial Transfers – Translation, Transition, Transformation"
14–16 May 2026, University of Osnabrück, Germany
⏰ Application Deadline: 6 January 2026
📢 Call for Applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowships
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
📅 Application deadline: 10 January 2026
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/pdf-f...
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
📅 Application deadline: 10 January 2026
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/pdf-f...
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de
October 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
📢 Call for Applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowships
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
📅 Application deadline: 10 January 2026
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/pdf-f...
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
📅 Application deadline: 10 January 2026
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/pdf-f...
🚨 Job Alert at University of Bonn! 🚨
3 Postdoctoral Position at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years
Start date: 1 April 2026
⏰ Application Deadline: 15 November 2025
www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...
3 Postdoctoral Position at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years
Start date: 1 April 2026
⏰ Application Deadline: 15 November 2025
www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...
3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)
full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152
www.uni-bonn.de
October 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
🚨 Job Alert at University of Bonn! 🚨
3 Postdoctoral Position at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years
Start date: 1 April 2026
⏰ Application Deadline: 15 November 2025
www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...
3 Postdoctoral Position at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years
Start date: 1 April 2026
⏰ Application Deadline: 15 November 2025
www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...
📢 Call for Book Chapters - Future Spectralities: Raising Ghosts, Conjuring Black Futurity 📚
350-500 word abstracts and bio to be submitted by 11 January 2026
#literarystudies #blackfuturity #englishliterature #literarytheory #culturalstudies
350-500 word abstracts and bio to be submitted by 11 January 2026
#literarystudies #blackfuturity #englishliterature #literarytheory #culturalstudies
September 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
📢 Call for Book Chapters - Future Spectralities: Raising Ghosts, Conjuring Black Futurity 📚
350-500 word abstracts and bio to be submitted by 11 January 2026
#literarystudies #blackfuturity #englishliterature #literarytheory #culturalstudies
350-500 word abstracts and bio to be submitted by 11 January 2026
#literarystudies #blackfuturity #englishliterature #literarytheory #culturalstudies
📢 Call for Special Issues - Global South Literary Studies📚
New Taylor&Francis/Routledge journal is calling for special issues!
Topics may include
• Decolonial studies
• Indigenous epistemologies
• Queer theory approaches
• Environmental humanities/ecocriticism
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgs...
New Taylor&Francis/Routledge journal is calling for special issues!
Topics may include
• Decolonial studies
• Indigenous epistemologies
• Queer theory approaches
• Environmental humanities/ecocriticism
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgs...
Learn about Global South Literary Studies
Learn about Global South Literary Studies aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.
www.tandfonline.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
📢 Call for Special Issues - Global South Literary Studies📚
New Taylor&Francis/Routledge journal is calling for special issues!
Topics may include
• Decolonial studies
• Indigenous epistemologies
• Queer theory approaches
• Environmental humanities/ecocriticism
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgs...
New Taylor&Francis/Routledge journal is calling for special issues!
Topics may include
• Decolonial studies
• Indigenous epistemologies
• Queer theory approaches
• Environmental humanities/ecocriticism
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgs...
Coffee hour's back! Let’s take a moment check in with each other ☀️
Grab a coffee/tea and bring your lunch to chat with other ECR members of GAPS for a bit 🤓☕️
➡️ECR Coffee Hour⬅️
Friday, 8 October 2025, 1-2 p.m. CET
Zoom details in the next GAPS newsletter
or e-mail our ECR representative
Grab a coffee/tea and bring your lunch to chat with other ECR members of GAPS for a bit 🤓☕️
➡️ECR Coffee Hour⬅️
Friday, 8 October 2025, 1-2 p.m. CET
Zoom details in the next GAPS newsletter
or e-mail our ECR representative
September 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Coffee hour's back! Let’s take a moment check in with each other ☀️
Grab a coffee/tea and bring your lunch to chat with other ECR members of GAPS for a bit 🤓☕️
➡️ECR Coffee Hour⬅️
Friday, 8 October 2025, 1-2 p.m. CET
Zoom details in the next GAPS newsletter
or e-mail our ECR representative
Grab a coffee/tea and bring your lunch to chat with other ECR members of GAPS for a bit 🤓☕️
➡️ECR Coffee Hour⬅️
Friday, 8 October 2025, 1-2 p.m. CET
Zoom details in the next GAPS newsletter
or e-mail our ECR representative
New ECR-led academic space [re]frame is now online. Check out their website for more details, including the inaugural call for submissions! reframe-academia.com/open-call/
Open Call – [re]frame
reframe-academia.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
New ECR-led academic space [re]frame is now online. Check out their website for more details, including the inaugural call for submissions! reframe-academia.com/open-call/
📢 Call for Papers "Conflicts, Crossings, Migrations in Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies"
Abstract deadline: 15 September 2025
📍University of Turin, Italy
🗓️25-29 May 2026
More info: corep.it/eaclals-conf...
Abstract deadline: 15 September 2025
📍University of Turin, Italy
🗓️25-29 May 2026
More info: corep.it/eaclals-conf...
EACLALS Conference 2026
Corep organizza master universitari e si occupa di alta formazione, innovazione e ricerca a Torino
corep.it
August 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
📢 Call for Papers "Conflicts, Crossings, Migrations in Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies"
Abstract deadline: 15 September 2025
📍University of Turin, Italy
🗓️25-29 May 2026
More info: corep.it/eaclals-conf...
Abstract deadline: 15 September 2025
📍University of Turin, Italy
🗓️25-29 May 2026
More info: corep.it/eaclals-conf...
📚 CfP
Making Sense of America – Conversations on Matters & Methods
📅 2-3 July 2026
📍 University of Innsbruck (Austria)
Making Sense of America – Conversations on Matters & Methods
📅 2-3 July 2026
📍 University of Innsbruck (Austria)
July 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
📚 CfP
Making Sense of America – Conversations on Matters & Methods
📅 2-3 July 2026
📍 University of Innsbruck (Austria)
Making Sense of America – Conversations on Matters & Methods
📅 2-3 July 2026
📍 University of Innsbruck (Austria)
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Yesterday's @gapsnet.bsky.social #PostcolonialStudies conference ended with a most moving, artfully delivered #poetry reading by #SouthAfricanPoet & scholar Uhuru Portia Phalafala from her epic poem "Mine Mine Mine" on the intergenerational trauma of miners & their families
#BlackStudies
#BlackStudies
June 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Yesterday's @gapsnet.bsky.social #PostcolonialStudies conference ended with a most moving, artfully delivered #poetry reading by #SouthAfricanPoet & scholar Uhuru Portia Phalafala from her epic poem "Mine Mine Mine" on the intergenerational trauma of miners & their families
#BlackStudies
#BlackStudies
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It's the final day of @gapsnet.bsky.social #conference and the day started on a high note with 3 great papers on plantation capitalism by @espinoza.bsky.social on the #Plantationocene & Caitlin Vandertop on the Oceanic novel & Annabell Fender on the Italian honeybee as worker/prisoner in #Australia
May 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It's the final day of @gapsnet.bsky.social #conference and the day started on a high note with 3 great papers on plantation capitalism by @espinoza.bsky.social on the #Plantationocene & Caitlin Vandertop on the Oceanic novel & Annabell Fender on the Italian honeybee as worker/prisoner in #Australia
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Another great panel at @gapsnet.bsky.social #conference heard Cherise Fung talk about silence & agency of Asian women in care, Tola Ositelu on meritocracy in 3 #memoirs by Black British women, and Dorit Neumann on Danaé Wellington's poem "The blue jeans asks her"
#BlackPoetry #PostcolonialStudies
#BlackPoetry #PostcolonialStudies
May 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Another great panel at @gapsnet.bsky.social #conference heard Cherise Fung talk about silence & agency of Asian women in care, Tola Ositelu on meritocracy in 3 #memoirs by Black British women, and Dorit Neumann on Danaé Wellington's poem "The blue jeans asks her"
#BlackPoetry #PostcolonialStudies
#BlackPoetry #PostcolonialStudies
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In the panel " #CulturalStudies Approaches to Neoliberal Capitalism" @gapsnet.bsky.social Alexander Rüter spoke abt startup mentality & Neal Stephenson's "Termination Shock", Nora Pleßke read Beukes' "Zoo City" w Orwell and Harald Pittel talked about #IndianCinema #Bollywood & cinema halls in crisis
May 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
In the panel " #CulturalStudies Approaches to Neoliberal Capitalism" @gapsnet.bsky.social Alexander Rüter spoke abt startup mentality & Neal Stephenson's "Termination Shock", Nora Pleßke read Beukes' "Zoo City" w Orwell and Harald Pittel talked about #IndianCinema #Bollywood & cinema halls in crisis
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One of the panels at @gapsnet.bsky.social #conference approaches "Capitalist Realism & Beyond": @cwiesercox.bsky.social speaks on healing monstrous #motherhood in Castro's "Haunting of Alejandra", Michael Boog on irrealism in Unnikrishnan's "Temporary People" & Wang Yuen Ho on Wong's "Unfree Speech"
May 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
One of the panels at @gapsnet.bsky.social #conference approaches "Capitalist Realism & Beyond": @cwiesercox.bsky.social speaks on healing monstrous #motherhood in Castro's "Haunting of Alejandra", Michael Boog on irrealism in Unnikrishnan's "Temporary People" & Wang Yuen Ho on Wong's "Unfree Speech"
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Yesterday was day 1 of this year's @gapsnet.bsky.social #conference on "Neoliberal Global Capitalism", hosted by Gigi Adair & Ellen Grünkemeier of Bielefeld University. It started with a thought-provoking keynote by Nivedita Majumdar, questioning the relation of #PostcolonialStudies & #Marxism
May 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Yesterday was day 1 of this year's @gapsnet.bsky.social #conference on "Neoliberal Global Capitalism", hosted by Gigi Adair & Ellen Grünkemeier of Bielefeld University. It started with a thought-provoking keynote by Nivedita Majumdar, questioning the relation of #PostcolonialStudies & #Marxism
🤖 📚 BrAIve New Worlds?! Literature in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Concepts, Genres, and Model Interpretations (Conference)
📅 19-21 June 2025
📍 University of Graz (Austria)
🎤 Keynote by N. Katherine Hayles (UCLA): Communicating with Aliens: Large Language Models as Writer/Reader/Critic
📅 19-21 June 2025
📍 University of Graz (Austria)
🎤 Keynote by N. Katherine Hayles (UCLA): Communicating with Aliens: Large Language Models as Writer/Reader/Critic
May 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🤖 📚 BrAIve New Worlds?! Literature in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Concepts, Genres, and Model Interpretations (Conference)
📅 19-21 June 2025
📍 University of Graz (Austria)
🎤 Keynote by N. Katherine Hayles (UCLA): Communicating with Aliens: Large Language Models as Writer/Reader/Critic
📅 19-21 June 2025
📍 University of Graz (Austria)
🎤 Keynote by N. Katherine Hayles (UCLA): Communicating with Aliens: Large Language Models as Writer/Reader/Critic
📢 Call for Special Issues - Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 📚
The world’s oldest journal on modern philology is now accepting proposals for thematic clusters/special issues to be published in 2026 & 2027 in English Literature!
🗓️ Proposal Deadline: August 1, 2025
The world’s oldest journal on modern philology is now accepting proposals for thematic clusters/special issues to be published in 2026 & 2027 in English Literature!
🗓️ Proposal Deadline: August 1, 2025
May 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
📢 Call for Special Issues - Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 📚
The world’s oldest journal on modern philology is now accepting proposals for thematic clusters/special issues to be published in 2026 & 2027 in English Literature!
🗓️ Proposal Deadline: August 1, 2025
The world’s oldest journal on modern philology is now accepting proposals for thematic clusters/special issues to be published in 2026 & 2027 in English Literature!
🗓️ Proposal Deadline: August 1, 2025
🚨 Job Alert at University of Potsdam! 🚨
1 PhD Position in Gender & Queer Studies
Contract: 3-year, 50% part-time, TV-L 13
Start date: as soon as possible
Department of English and American Studies, University of Potsdam (GER)
⏰ Application Deadline: 17th June 2025
1 PhD Position in Gender & Queer Studies
Contract: 3-year, 50% part-time, TV-L 13
Start date: as soon as possible
Department of English and American Studies, University of Potsdam (GER)
⏰ Application Deadline: 17th June 2025
May 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
🚨 Job Alert at University of Potsdam! 🚨
1 PhD Position in Gender & Queer Studies
Contract: 3-year, 50% part-time, TV-L 13
Start date: as soon as possible
Department of English and American Studies, University of Potsdam (GER)
⏰ Application Deadline: 17th June 2025
1 PhD Position in Gender & Queer Studies
Contract: 3-year, 50% part-time, TV-L 13
Start date: as soon as possible
Department of English and American Studies, University of Potsdam (GER)
⏰ Application Deadline: 17th June 2025
🎓 📣 Job Alert!
1 wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (75%, TV-L 13)
📍 University of Bielefeld (GER)
📚 Lehrprojekt “Bielefeld Postkolonial”
Start: as soon as possible
End: 31 March 2027 (fixed-term contract)
🔔 Application deadline: 29 May 2025
1 wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (75%, TV-L 13)
📍 University of Bielefeld (GER)
📚 Lehrprojekt “Bielefeld Postkolonial”
Start: as soon as possible
End: 31 March 2027 (fixed-term contract)
🔔 Application deadline: 29 May 2025
May 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
🎓 📣 Job Alert!
1 wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (75%, TV-L 13)
📍 University of Bielefeld (GER)
📚 Lehrprojekt “Bielefeld Postkolonial”
Start: as soon as possible
End: 31 March 2027 (fixed-term contract)
🔔 Application deadline: 29 May 2025
1 wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (75%, TV-L 13)
📍 University of Bielefeld (GER)
📚 Lehrprojekt “Bielefeld Postkolonial”
Start: as soon as possible
End: 31 March 2027 (fixed-term contract)
🔔 Application deadline: 29 May 2025
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Mein Sammelband ist nun erschienen 🩵💜
Ich hoffe, der Band wird viel gelesen und Gespräche über Schwarze deutsche Literatur finden zukünftig auch noch mehr an den Unis statt.
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
Ich hoffe, der Band wird viel gelesen und Gespräche über Schwarze deutsche Literatur finden zukünftig auch noch mehr an den Unis statt.
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
Schwarze deutsche Literatur
Schwarze Literatur als Teil der deutschen Kultur – Geschichte, Ästhetiken und gesellschaftliche Einflüsse seit den 1980er Jahren.
www.transcript-verlag.de
May 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Mein Sammelband ist nun erschienen 🩵💜
Ich hoffe, der Band wird viel gelesen und Gespräche über Schwarze deutsche Literatur finden zukünftig auch noch mehr an den Unis statt.
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
Ich hoffe, der Band wird viel gelesen und Gespräche über Schwarze deutsche Literatur finden zukünftig auch noch mehr an den Unis statt.
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
🎓 Online Guest Lecture: “Decolonization Is Not Enough: On the Geopolitics of Settler Colonialism”
📅 16 May 2025, 5-7 PM (CEST)
Speaker: Alyosha Goldstein, Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico
The Zoom link will be distributed in due time. This is a members-only event.
📅 16 May 2025, 5-7 PM (CEST)
Speaker: Alyosha Goldstein, Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico
The Zoom link will be distributed in due time. This is a members-only event.
May 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
🎓 Online Guest Lecture: “Decolonization Is Not Enough: On the Geopolitics of Settler Colonialism”
📅 16 May 2025, 5-7 PM (CEST)
Speaker: Alyosha Goldstein, Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico
The Zoom link will be distributed in due time. This is a members-only event.
📅 16 May 2025, 5-7 PM (CEST)
Speaker: Alyosha Goldstein, Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico
The Zoom link will be distributed in due time. This is a members-only event.