📢 Call for Submissions - Speculative Cultures and the Metamodern Turn 📚 250-300 word abstracts to be submitted by 18 January 2026 #literarystudies #englishliterature #literarytheory #speculativefiction

🌍📚 New Publication Alert: Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives Edited by Anton Kirchhofer and Karsten Levihn-Kutzler heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...

📢 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

📢 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

📢 Call for Seminar Papers: "The Poetics of Affect – Literary Perspectives" 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

🚨2026 GAPS Conference announced🚨 "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...

🚨 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...

📢 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

📢 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...

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

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...

📚 CfP Making Sense of America – Conversations on Matters & Methods 📅 2-3 July 2026 📍 University of Innsbruck (Austria)

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

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

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

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

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"

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

📢 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

🚨 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

🎓 📣 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

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...

🎓 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.

📢 JOB KLAXON 📢 Come work with me: I am advertising a PhD position in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (50%, for 3 years initially, starting date: September 2025) - please share widely! www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/or...

✨new summer who dis✨ no seriously; going to bring in new voices and new reads into our postcolonial environmental humanities working group. interested? write to me or send it to your dearest nerdy friend and ask them to join us (g-a-p-s.net/reading-grou...) (thanks to @gapsnet.bsky.social)

📢 Call for Papers: Postcolonial Narrations Conference 2025 "Inner Circles: Kinship, Inclusion, and Inaccessibility", is co-hosted by LMU Munich and University of Oxford. 📅 23 – 24 September 2025 📍 St. Hilda’s, University of Oxford (UK) 📝 Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2025

📢 Call for Applications: GAPS Project Fund! 🎓 GAPS offers up to €2,000 annually to support academic events in the field of postcolonial studies! Whether it's workshops, conferences, summer schools, or similar events – this funding is open to all non-tenured GAPS members. #GAPS #GAPSfunding

🎓Job Alert! Lecturer 📍 Institute of British and American Studies, University of Konstanz (GER) 50%, TV-L 13, 8 SWS, focus on English didactics! 📅Deadline: 15 April 2025 Apply now! #jobalert #englishstudies #teachingopportunities #careerinacademia #universityjobs #universityofkonstanz

🎓 Job Alert: PhD Position in Postcolonial Studies 📚 📍 Institute of English & American Studies, University of Oldenburg (GER) 65%, TV-L 13, starting 1 August 2025 or ASAP 📅 Deadline: 27 Apr 2025 #PostcolonialStudies #DoctoralCandidate #JobAlert #UniversityOfOldenburg #PhDPosition #AcademicJobs

🌍📚 New Publication Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis: Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability Edited by Janet M. Wilson, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, and Om Prakash Dwivedi #Ecocriticism #PlanetaryPrecarity #PostcolonialStudies

We're excited to showcase the latest special issue of Gender Forum—"Queering Postcolonial Worlds"! 🏳️‍🌈 Edited by Rita Maricocchi, Dorit Neumann, Oluwadunni O. Talabi, and Corina Wieser-Cox 📚✨ Read it now via the link in bio! #QueerStudies #PostcolonialTheory

Exciting news! 📢GAPS Dissertation Award 2024 winner Anika Gerfer is publishing her book "Jamaican Creole in Global Reggae and Dancehall Performances: Language Use, Perceptions, Attitudes". Available on February 28, 2025. 📅 Congratulations, Anika! 🎉 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-jamaica...

We would like to highlight again GAPS member Dr. Pavan Malreddy’s new book “Insurgent Cultures: World Literatures and Violence from the Global South” which is now available as Open Access publication. 🎉 Follow the link to access the title: www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

2 PhD positions at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Koblenz 1) focus on UK and Ireland 2) focus on postcolonial studies Apply now! 📨 📅 Application deadline: 27 February 2025 You can find the full job ads on our website: g-a-p-s.net/news/jobs/ #academicjobs #phdjobs

🎈🥳Join Pavan Kumar Malreddy to celebrate the book launch of his publication “Insurgent Cultures. World Literatures and Violence from the Global South” including a symposium with prominent speakers organised by the research initiative ConTrust. Participation via Zoom possible!

📢Research Training Group 2686 "Contradiction Studies - Constellations, Heuristics and Concepts of the Contradictory" at University of Bremen (GER) is offering 13 (❗) PhD positions 📅application deadline: 29 November 2024 Full ad here: uni-bremen.de/universitaet...

Job Alert! 🎓 ➡️Akademische Rätin / Akademischer Rat (f/m/d) – Fachlaufbahn Bildung und Wissenschaft 📅 application deadline: 06 December 2024 contract start: 01 April 2025 📍University of Würzburg, Germany Full job ad here: uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/aus... #academicjobs

➡️ECR Coffee Hour⬅️ Let’s enjoy a moment of quiet together in the middle of the winter term 🍂 Get cozy, bring your favourite beverage and join us for some casual ECR camaraderie 🤓☕️ 🗓️Friday, 15 November, 1-2 p.m. CET Zoom details in no. 11/2024 GAPS newsletter or e-mail our ECR representative 📨

New book publication by GAPS members Pavan Kumar Malreddy and Frank Schulze-Engler! 📚 Mapping World Anglophone Studies: English in a World of Strangers ➡️Available as open access publication here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

📢 Call for Papers "Men on the Margins - Postcolonial and Decolonial Masculinities in Anglophone Literatures" Abstract deadline: 01 December 2024 📍Freie Universität Berlin, GER 🗓️20-21 June 2025

The Call for Papers for the conference “Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe” is out now! 📢 📅13-14 June 2025 Deadline for Abstracts: 20th December 2024

job for potential phd candidates just gone live. cultural studies at uni rostock. small team with me and madeline becker. initial contract 3 years, 50% tvl-13. please spread the word, thanks jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/8...

📢Symposium "Literature, Prizeworthiness, and Kinship Across Borders" organised by Caroline Kögler 26 - 27 November 2024

NEW PUBLICATION: Our double special issue on “Ecological Solidarities across Post/Colonial Worlds.” Find all articles free and open access here: www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pc... #EnvHum #Ecology #PostcolonialLit

📢Call for Nominations: GAPS Graduate Award 2025 GAPS is calling all its members in lead thesis advisor roles to honour their students’ hard work! 💪🔍🤓 More information: g-a-p-s.net/graduate-awa.... #academicaward

📢Job Alert University of Bielefeld (GER) is looking for a ➡️Professor for American Literary and Cultural Studies (W2 TT W3/W3)⬅️ 🔍focus on Inter-American Studies 🗓️application deadline: 04 November 2024