Prof. Dr. Caroline Kögler
Institut / Einrichtungen:
Fachgebiet / Arbeitsbereich:
Englische Philologie / Global Literature and its Media with a Focus on Gender Studies
Professorin
Raum JK29/208
14195 Berlin
Sprechstunde
Current office hours: Sprechstundentermine (please register in advance).
For students who would like to write a BA or MA thesis, please email me with a 250 word abstract and a prospective table of contents and come to my office hour.
Please note: for any kind of writing you submit - term papers, BA or MA theses - it is essential that you consider the medium within which narratives are placed. For example, if you write about film, please reflect on any film techniques used; if you write about novels, please consider formal features specific to these prose texts. I am happy to discuss this further in my office hour.
Also, it is strictly necessary that you consult and engage with secondary literature, which includes both theory (e.g. postcolonial theory, queer theory, etc.) and texts that other scholars have already produced in relation to the text/film in question (articles, chapters, monographs etc.).
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Events hosted at FU Berlin:
past events:
2026
- International Symposium, "Dismantling Fascist Forms. World-Making, Refusal and Critique" | 22-23 June 2026
- Jack Halberstam, Columbia University: "Dismantling Fascism: Trans and Queer An/Architectures", Guest Lecture | 18th June 2026
- Colby Gordon, Bryn Mawr College: "Margaret Cavendish' s trans kabbalah" | 9th June 2026
- K. Allison Hammer, Southern Illinois University: "The future of trans masculinity: Beyond the manosphere" | 5th June 2026
- Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Universität Münster: "Book fairs as political spaces: challenges and current trends from the mainstream to the alt-right" | 25th May 2026
2025
- Co-taught Masterclass with Jack Halberstam, Columbia University, and Nina Tolksdorf, FU Berlin: "The Aesthetics and the Politics of Collapse" | Summer Semester
- International Symposium, "Neo-Historical Fiction at 2025: Prized Temporalities and Contested Progress" | 2-4 June 2025
2024
- International Symposium: "Prizeworthiness: Kinship Beyond Literary Nationalism" | 26-27 November 2024
2023
- International Symposium: "Gender and/as Literary Currency in the Anglophone Book Market" | November 2023
Vita
Since July 2026: Principal Investigator at CRC "Intervening Arts" (SFB 1512)
2026: Offer of W3 "Anglophone Studies" from University of Cologne; rejected
Since May 2023: Professor (Tenure Track) of Global Literature and Its Media, Freie Universität Berlin (FU)
& Principal Investigator at Cluster of Excellence, "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective", Research Area 4 ("Literary Currencies")
2022–2023: Akademische Oberrätin a.Z. (Senior Lecturer), Chair of British Studies, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU)
2020-2023: Member of "Junges Kolleg", Nordrheinwestfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste
2019–2023: Principal Investigator, Collaborative Research Centre „Law and Literature“ (SFB 1385), focus on „Literature and the Market“ , WWU Münster
Summer Semester 2022: Acting Professor (W3), "British and Anglophone Literature and Culture" at Universität Duisburg-Essen
06/2022: Venia "British and Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies"
2016-2022: Habilitation, "Emotion’s Empire and the Rise of the Novel. Cultural Politics of Attachment, Grieving and Coping in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1688-1847", WWU Münster
2019: Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall College
2015: Promotion (PhD), "Critical Branding: Postcolonial Studies and the Market“ (Routledge, 2018)
Current Courses
Summer Semester 2026
Gender/Queer/Trans Theory Now
The Body and Fascism
Past Courses:
Lectures
Imperialism and the Gothic, 1760-1900
Postmodern Literature
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies
Seminars
PhD
Promotionskollopquium, Friedrich-Schlegel-Graduiertenschule (FU Berlin; with Michael Gamper)
Co-taught Masterclass with Jack Halberstam and Nina Tolksdorf
Promotionskolloquium, Graduate School Practices of Literature (Münster; with Cornelia Blasberg)
Master
Empire and the Globalising Gothic Around 1800
Neo-historical Fiction: Aesthetics of Desire
Workshop 18th & 19th Century Gothic Literature
Writing the Publishing Industry + Research Workshop
Globality and Temporality in Queer Perspective
Shakespeare’s Oceans
The 2020s: Pandemic Literature and Viral Theatre
Adaptation: Neo-Victorian Cultural Production
The Romantic Novel Around 1800
From E-Books to Self-Publishing (with Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Petra Pohlmann, Gernot Sieg)
Markt, Recht und Literatur (with Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Petra Pohlmann, Gernot Sieg)
Romanticism in Atlantic Perspective
Posthumanism in Nineteenth Century Fiction
The Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century
Feeling the Victorians: Emotion in Nineteenth Century Literature
Novel and Autobiography in Eighteenth Century Britain
Bachelor
Australian Literatures
Transcultural Memoirs - Postcolonial and Queer Perspectives
Queer Futures
Undergraduate Research Class
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies
Utopia/Dystopia: From Thomas More to Brexit
Atlantic Poetry across the Centuries
Postcolonial Shakespeare
Modernism, Anti-Modernism, Postmodernism
Adaptation and Enlightenment: The Eighteenth Century on Film
Nature: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism
Victorian and Neo-Victorian Literature
Intersectionality
What is Identity?
Literatures of the African and South Asian Diasporas
The Queer Postmodern: From Foucault to Conchita Wurst
Communicating Texts and Theories: Postmodernism
Exoticism, Madness and Migration
Communicating Texts and Theories: South African Literature
The Transnational Trajectories of Love and Sexuality
Communicating Texts and Theories: Gender and Sexuality in a Postcolonial Framework
Imagining Globalisation
The Exotic – From Colonial to Postcolonial Cultural Production
Communicating Texts and Theories: Postcolonialism
Caribbean Cultural Production: A Historical Overview
Global Literary Cultures: Research at the Chair of Global Literature and Its Media approaches Anglophone literatures, cultures, and media from transhistorical, intersectional, and global perspectives. English Philology is understood in its broadest sense, extending from the early modern period to the present and beyond Britain to the diverse literary and cultural formations shaped by empire, colonialism, migration, and global circulation. Literature is approached not simply as a reflection of historical change, but as a medium through which cultural, political, and aesthetic knowledge is produced, negotiated, and contested.
Empire and Coloniality: A central strand of this research examines the relationship between globality, empire, and coloniality. It traces the emergence of global literary imaginaries from the early modern conditions of European expansion, through the Anglo-Atlantic world of the long eighteenth century, to contemporary global writing. Questions of affect, embodiment, belonging, and relationality are brought into conversation with colonial and postcolonial histories in order to ask how literary texts participate in shaping imperial worldviews while also imagining alternatives to them. The forthcoming monograph Emotion's Empire: Colonial Attachment, Grievability and Self-Preservation in Anglo-Atlantic Literature, 1688–1847 (Bloomsbury Academic) explores how literary representations of emotion became implicated in the making—and unmaking—of colonial forms of attachment and selfhood.
Media, Markets, Materiality: Research in the Economic Humanities examines literature not only as an aesthetic practice but also as a commodity, institution, and economic actor. It explores the material and medial conditions of literary production, including publishing, literary prizes, branding, cultural value, and the relationships between literature, law, and the marketplace. More broadly, this work asks how texts circulate across media, institutions, and global contexts, and how these infrastructures shape literary form, value, and reception.
Embodiment and Intervention: A further area of research brings together queer studies, affect theory, and questions of embodiment. Within the Collaborative Research Centre "Intervening Arts" (CRC/SFB 1512), the project "Intervention verkörpern: Literature, Citizenship and the Market of Belonging" investigates practices of participation and separation at the intersection of literature and embodiment. It explores how globally circulating legal, political, economic, and cultural regimes—from migration policies and citizenship to norms of gender, sexuality, and bodily legitimacy—shape literary production and lived experience. Particular attention is given to the work of queer, trans*, Indigenous, postcolonial, and stateless writers whose literary and artistic practices challenge dominant orders of belonging and develop alternative forms of relationality. Rather than treating literature and art merely as objects of analysis, the project approaches them as forms of theoretical knowledge in their own right.
Authoritarianism and Aesthetic Resistance: More recently, this work has expanded into the study of the aesthetic and affective dimensions of contemporary authoritarianism and the New Fascism. Bringing together literary studies, queer theory, media studies, and political thought, this research asks how authoritarian imaginaries are organised through narratives, affects, bodies, and media practices—and how literature and the arts intervene in these formations by making them visible, contesting them, or imagining alternative modes of collective life. These interests are reflected in a series of international conferences, workshops, and collaborations that bring together scholars working across literary, cultural, media, and artistic fields.
3. Emotion’s Empire. Colonial Attachment, Grievability and Self-Preservation in Anglo-Atlantic Literature, 1688–1847
[contracted with Bloomsbury Academic]
2. Are Books still „Different“? Literature as Culture and Commodity in a Digital Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. [with Corinna Norrick-Rühl]
Open Access: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/are-books-still-different/118D0CF55B20BD6733EC661BA4E490A8.
1. Critical Branding. Postcolonial Studies and the Market. New York: Routledge, 2018.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315144825.
Reviewed in:
- Journal of 21st-Century Writings (2021)
- Oxford Academic’s “The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory” (2019)
- Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JPW), 2019
- Interventions. International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2020
6. with Alexandra Dane, Prizeworthy Literary Culture. Following Precious Books and the Contexts From Which They Emerge. under contract with Bloomsbury Academic.
5. with Pavan Malreddy and Marlena Tronicke, eds. Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. https://www.routledge.com/Writing-Brexit-Colonial-Remains/Koegler-Malreddy-Tronicke/p/book/9780367775872.
4. with Jesper Reddig and Klaus Stierstorfer, eds. Citizenship, Law and Literature. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2021. http://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110749830/html.
3. with Marlena Tronicke, eds. Queering Neo-Victorianism Beyond Sarah Waters, Special Issue of Neo-Victorian Studies, 2020. http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/past_issues/13-1-2020/default.htm
2. with Pavan Malreddy and Marlena Tronicke, eds. Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains, Special Issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2020. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpw20/56/5.
1. with Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Deborah Nyangulu, and Mark Stein, eds. Locating African European Studies: Interventions-Intersections-Conversations. New York: Routledge, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429491092.
Journal Articles (10)
10. “The Anarchitectural Mediality of Sciamma’s 'Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu' (2019): Staying with the Debris,“ French Screen Studies, 2026: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26438941.2026.2670943#d1e247
9. “Ocean and Emotion in Shakespeare’s The Tempest - A Circumnavigation,“ Journal of Atlantic Studies, April 2025: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14788810.2025.2468061.
8. “Uneasy Forms of Interdisciplinarity: Literature, Business Studies, and the Limits of Critique.” Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies 32,3, 2021. https://angl.winter-verlag.de/data/article/10753/pdf/92103006.pdf.
7. “Follow the Hatred: The Production of Negative Feeling in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847).” NOVEL. A Forum on Fiction 54,2: 270-286, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-9004531.
6. “Queer Home-Making and Black Britain: Claiming, Ageing, Living.” Interventions. International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 22,7: 879-896, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2020.1718536.
5. with Marlena Tronicke, “Neo-Victorianism’s Queer Potentiality: Livability and Intersectional Imaginaries.” Neo-Victorian Studies 13,1: 1-43, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4317163.
4. with Pavan Malreddy and Marlena Tronicke. “The Colonial Remains of Brexit: Empire Nostalgia and Narcissistic Nationalism.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56,5: 582-592, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2020.1818440.
3. “Posthumanism and Colonial Discourse: Nineteenth Century Literature and Twenty-First Century Critique.” Reading in Ruins. Exploring Posthumanist Narrative Studies. Special Issue of Open Library of Humanities Journal, eds. Roman Bartosch und Julia Hoydis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.613.
2. “Deadly Desires, Dubious Pleasures—Grievability, Status, and the Subjection of Female Autonomy in Eliza Haywood’s Love in Excess (1719).” Women’s Writing 28,1: 20-36, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2019.1616954.
1. “Precarious Urbanity. ‘The Jungle’ (Calais) and the Politics of Performing the Urban.” Postcolonial Text 12,3: 1-15, 2017. https://www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/2309/2125.
Book Chapters (16)
16. "Modelling the Globe: Early Modern Speculations of Form and Finance.“ In: The Model in the World: Cultural Mediations of Economic Models, ed. James Dorson. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics [accepted].
15 with Melissa Kennedy and Natalie Roxburgh, "Re-Writing and Re-Reading as Methods of Economic Criticism." Handbook of Methodologies of Economic Criticism, eds. Ellen Grünkemeyer, Nora Plesske und Joanna Rostek Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics [accepted].
14. "'Awards Bait'—Prized Feelings and R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface in the Libidinal Economy,” in: Prizeworthy Literary Culture. Following Precious Books and the Contexts from which They Emerge, ed. Alexandra Dane and Caroline Koegler. Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming.
13. with Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Petra Pohlmann and Gernot Sieg, "Must Writers Be Moral?“: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf 'Morality Clauses‘ im Literaturbetrieb.” Literatur und Recht: Materialität. Formen und Prozesse gegenseitiger Vergegenständlichung, eds. Eric Achermann, Andreas Blödorn, Corinna Norrick-Rühl and Petra Pohlmann. Berlin: DeGruyter, 71-105, 2023. https://link.springer.com/book/9783662661611.
12. “Memorialising African Being and Becoming in the Atlantic World: Affective Herstories by Yaa Gyasi and Bernardine Evaristo.” The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect, edited by Todd W. Reeser. New York: Routledge, 374–385, 2023. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003045007-40/memorializing-african-being-becoming-atlantic-world-caroline-koegler.
11. “Oceans of Non-Relation. Affect and Narcissistic Imperialism in Sea Poetry by James Thomson, Charlotte Brontë, and Hannah More.” Practices of Comparing: Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century, eds. Nadine Böhm-Schnitker and Marcus Hartner. Berlin: DeGruyter, 179-202, 2022. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783839457993-008/html.
10. mit Jesper Reddig und Klaus Stierstorfer, “Citizenship-as-Literature, Citizenship-in-Literature.” Citizenship, Law and Literature, eds. Caroline Koegler, Jesper Reddig and Klaus Stierstorfer. Berlin: DeGruyter, 1-12, 2021. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110749830-001/html.
9. “Literature and Performative Citizenship: Moshin Hamid’s Exit West (2017).” Citizenship, Law and Literature, eds. Caroline Koegler, Jesper Reddig and Klaus Stierstorfer. Berlin: DeGruyter, 45-46, 2021. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110749830-004/html.
8. “Newfound Futures: Queer Planetary Perspectives on Loss, Exile, and Post-Exile in Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods (2007).” Nach-Exil / Post-Exile. Jahrbuch für Exilforschung, eds. Bettina Bannasch and Katja Sarkowsky. Berlin: DeGruyter, 216-239, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110688030-011.
7. “The Market as a Dimension of Practice. Commodification, Ideology, and Postcolonial Studies.” Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts,eds. Katja Sarkowsky and Mark Stein. Leiden: Brill, 43-56, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004437456_005.
6. “Village Du Monde? (Fortress) Europe, the ‘Jungle’ of Calais, and the African European Paradigm.” Locating African European Studies: Interventions-Intersections-Conversations, eds. Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Caroline Koegler, Deborah Nyangulu and Mark Stein. New York: Routledge, 45-61, 2020. https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429491092-3.
5. with Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Deborah Nyangulu, and Mark Stein, "African European Studies as a Critique of Contingent Belonging.“ Locating African European Studies: Interventions, Intersections, Conversations. New York: Routledge, 1-28, 2020. https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429491092-1.
4. “At Whose Cost? A Critical Reading of Carolyn Cooper’s Keynote Lecture ‚Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation.” Contested Communities, ed. Susanne Mühleisen. Leiden: Brill, 291-301, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335288_019.
3. “Responding and Responsibility: Postcolonial Intertextuality in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe.” Literaturtheorie als Theorie der Gesellschaft, ed. Promotionskolleg Literaturtheorie als Theorie der Gesellschaft. Heidelberg: Winter, 315-342, 2015.
2. “‘On the Shore of the Mind’: Derek Walcott’s Transoceanic Collage of Caribbean Identity.” “Die Lyrik ist eine Insel, die sich vom Festland“ – Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie 2013 an Derek Walcott und Werner von Koppenfels, eds. Hermann Wallmann und das Kulturamt Münster. Münster: Daedalus, 50-57, 2013.
1. "‘Am Ufer der Gedanken‘: Derek Walcotts transozeanische Collage karibischer Identität.“ "Die Lyrik ist eine Insel, die sich vom Festland ablöst.“ Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie 2013 an Derek Walcott und Werner von Koppenfels, ed. Hermann Wallmann, 42-49, 2013.
Encyclopedic Entries (4)
4. with Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Christian Peter, Petra Pohlmann, Lena Schüler, Gernot Sieg, "Markt," Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, edited by SFB 1385 Recht und Literatur, n.pag., 2022. https://lawandliterature.eu/index.php/de/inhalt?view=article&id=29&catid=11
3. “Posthumanism and the Question of Race; or: Posthumanisation in the Colonial Anthropocene,” criticalposthumanism.net. Tagged ANTHROPOCENE, BLACKNESS, COLONIALISM, POSTCOLONIALISM, RACE. Ivan Callus, Stefan Herbrechter, Manuela Rossini, eds, 2022. https://criticalposthumanism.net/posthumanism-and-the-question-of-race-or-posthumanisation-in-the-colonial-anthropocene/.
2. “Jackie Kay: Trumpet (1998).” The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: Postwar and Contemporary English Writing and Culture, 1945-present, 2021. https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10263.
1. “Bernardine Evaristo: Mr Loverman (2013).” The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: Postwar and Contemporary English Writing and Culture, 1945-present, 2020. https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38876.
Reviews (5)
5. “Kristine Steenbergh and Katherine Ibbett eds, Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture. Feeling and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021,” Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 2022.
4. “Kai Wiegandt: J.M. Coetzee’s Revisions of the Human (Palgrave, 2020),” Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies, 2022. https://angl.winter-verlag.de/data/article/11343/pdf/92203013.pdf.
3. “Paul Crosthwaite: The Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2019),” Journal of 21st Century Literature, 2020. https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.2918.
2. “Judith Butler: Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly,” Symbolism. An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics 17. 285-291, 2017.
1. “Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Birte Heidemann, Ole Birk Laursen and Janet Wilson’s Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization, Labour and Rights,“ EACLALS Newsletter, 2016.
Other Publications (2)
2. “Branding Justice“ PSA Newsletter #24. 16-19 Postcolonial Studies Association, 2020.
1. mit Michael Butt. “Die Wirtschaftskrise aus Sicht der Unternehmensberatungen – eine kritische Analyse.“ Arbeitspapier Nr. 51. Münster: Institut für Anlagen und Systemtechnologien, 2011.
Talks
58. Against Sexy Fascism | Universität Würzburg | Britcult Annual Conference | November 2026
57. Dismantling Fascist Forms. World-Making, Refusal and Critique | FU Berlin | 22nd July 2026
56. Polyphonic Waters: Registers of Relation Beyond Hydrocolonialism | Universität zu Köln | 4th July 2025
55. "The Great Globe Itself": Shakespeare's Circumnavigations in The Tempest | The University of Oxford, Exeter College | Conference "Before Earthrise" | 24th June 2025
54. The Anarchitectural Mediality of Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) | Freie Universität Berlin | Cluster-Conference "Neo-historical Fiction at 2025: Prized Temporalities and Contested Progress | 4th June 2025
53. Tracing Global Forms: Pigafetta’s Logbook of Magellan’s Circumnavigation, 1519-1522 | Freie Universität Berlin | DFG-Network Conference "Model Imaginaries: Literature, Economics, Abstraction" | 4th July 2024
52. Writing and Publishing Postcolonial Literatures: Marginalised Aesthetics? | Panel Discussion between Caroline Koegler and Madhu Krishnan | Freie Universität Berlin | Conference "Literary Value: Artistic, Academic, and Critical Practices" | 3rd July 2024
51. “To cry to th’ sea that roared to us”: (Affective) Survival in Early Modern Seascapes| Universität Bremen | Guest Lecture | 26/11/2023
50. Archives of Transformation: from the Black Atlantic to the Digital Black Atlantic| Universität Dortmund | Guest Lecture | 26/10/2023
49. The Book as Medium in the 2020s. Re-writing the Publishing Industry fromBibliodiversity to the Digital Literary Sphere | Universität Graz (Austria) | Guest Lecture | 04/10/2023
48. With Harshan Kumarasingham und Almuth Ebke: Stuart Ward, Untied Kingdom. A Global History of the End of Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2023) | Roundtable Book Launch | Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität Berlin | 13/02/2023
47. Pandemic Literature in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Guest Lecture (online), Universität Konstanz, 11/01/2023
46. Literary Studies and the Economic: On Interdisciplinarity and the Limits of Critique. Inaugural lecture (PD) | Universität Münster | 06/12/2022
45. Prizing Non-Citizenship Literature: Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend But The Mountains and the Economy of Literary Nationalism | NO DATE
44. International Workshop (Münster/Monash University, Melbourne) on “Gender Imbalance in the Book Industry” | Universität Münster | 24/11/2022
43. Reading Attachment in the Early Black Atlantic: From Adam Smith to the Plantation BGECS-Jahrestagung [Bonn Group for Eighteenth-Century Studies] | Universität Bonn | 07/10/21
42. When Gender Became Deadly? Homes, Lockdowns, and Normativity in Current Pandemic Fiction | ESSE Konferenz | Universität Mainz | 30/08/2022
41. The Perishing Organization: Between Pandemic Fiction and Organizational Storytelling in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Corporations, Communities, Crowds: The Aesthetics of Collective Agency in Twenty-First Century Culture| Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover | 21/07/2022
40. Transformational Archives, Distant Presence - Between Atlantic Historicity and Digital Renewal. Guest Lecture, Universität Hamburg, 30/06/2022
39. Transregional Queer Imaginaries of Belonging. Polyphonic Gatherings and Archipelagic Archives. Guest Lecture, Universität Frankfurt | 24/06/2022.
38. The End of Men und The Last She - Perspektiven auf Well-Being und Gesellschaft in Aktueller Pandemischer Literatur. Habilitations-Vortrag, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster | 13/06/2022.
37. Implicated Affect, or: Traumatic Attachments – Historical Perspectives. Contested Solidarities (GAPS annual conference), Universität Frankfurt, 27/05/2022
36. From the Black Atlantic to the Digital Black Atlantic: Transformational Archives and Distant Presence. Guest Lecture, Freie Universität Berlin | 06/05/2022
35. Alternative Archives in the Making. From Bernardine Evaristo to the Digital Literary Sphere | Guest Lecture, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen | 25/02/2022
34. Grievable Feelings, Capital Constraints: Emotion and/as Property in Henry Mackenzie’s Julia de Roubigné (1777), Anonymous’ The Woman of Colour (1808), and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847). Romantic Interventions: From Idealism to Activism | Universität Dortmund | 04/02/2022
33. Kulturelle Ungleichheit: Differenz, Diversität, und Partizipation im Verlagswesen—Literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Forschungstag der Nordrheinwestfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste zum Thema „Ungleichheit“ | 26/01/2022
32. “Torn From Her, From France”: Figurations of Homesickness and Imperial Dread in Sarah Scott’s The History of Sir George Ellison, Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling and Julia de Roubigné. British Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) | University of Oxford | 07/01/2022
31. Archipelagic Feeling in The Woman of Colour (1808): Writing Away From / Toward the Colonial Attachment Narrative. Hotspots Lecture Series | English Seminar, Münster | 11/01/2022
30. mit Georgina Lewis, University of Exeter: Whose Boundaries? Joint Perspectives from Sociology and Literary Studies on Forced Migration, Trauma, & the Integrity of Borders. Breaking Boundaries. Reimagining Borders in Postcolonial and Migrant Studies. Manchester Metropolitan | 03/09/21
29. Follow the Hatred: The Production of Negative Feeling in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847). Brontë2020 | Brontë Parsonage Museum | 04/09/2020
28. Cultural Good or Economic Good? The Book, Fixed Book Prices, and the Singularity of Literature in an Age of Digitisation. Book Studies Lecture Series (Corinna Norrick-Rühl) [Gastvortrag] | University of Münster | 07/07/2020
27. Cinematic Representation and Imperial Politics of Emotion: UK Film Adaptations of 18th Century Slavery and Abolitionism
26. Gastvortrag „Imperial Fictions“ Seminar (Dr. Jennifer S. Henke) | Universität Bremen | 31/01/2020
25. The Gothic Horrors of Suicide and Trauma: Failed Coping as Resistance in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative (1789). British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference (BSECS) | University of Oxford | 09/01/2020
24. Fixed Book Prices, Digitisation, & the Profitable Notion of the Singularity of Literature.Intersections of Finance and Society Conference. University of London |12/12/2019
23. Heathcliff’s Hate, Catherine’s Liberation: Reading Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) as a Fantasy of Violation. Hotspots Lecture Series, English Seminar, Münster | 22/10/2019
22. Adapting Abolitionism, Sentimentalizing Whiteness: Imperialist Politics of Emotion in Contemporary British Film. Zehnte BGECS-Jahrestagung. Das 18. Jahrhundert in Film und Populärkultur | Universität Bonn | 02/10/2019
21. Literature and … Business Studies. Conflicts and Crossovers. Anglistentag | Universität Leipzig | 23/09/2019
20. Branding Justice. PSA (Postcolonial Studies Association) Convention | University of Manchester | 12/09/2019
19. Deeply Affected: Reading Trans-Atlantic Journeys and the Politics of Self-preservation in Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders and Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative. ISECS International Congress on the Enlightenment | University of Edinburgh, GB | 18/07/2019
18. Deeply Affected: Reading Trans-Atlantic Journeys and the Politics of Self-preservation in Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders and Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative. GAPS Konferenz “Postcolonial Oceans- Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water” | Universität Bremen | 30/06/2019
17. Magic Pathways, Open Doors: Literature, Performative Citizenship, and Moshin Hamid’s Exit West (2017). Citizenship, Law and Literature Konferenz | Villa Vigoni, Centro Italo-Tedesco per l’Eccellenza Europea, Italia | 26/03/2019
16. mit Pohlmann, Petra | Markt und Literatur. Begehung SFB „Law and Literature“ | Universität Münster | 10/01/2019
15. Grievability, Status, and Deadly Desires in Eliza Haywood’s Love in Excess (1719). Konferenz “Gendered Emotions” | University of Sheffield, UK | 29/06/2018
14. The Market as a Dimension of Practice. Commodification, Ideology, and Postcolonial Studies. “Lange Nacht der Postkolonialen Theorie“ | Institut für Politikwissenschaft, WWU Münster | 21/06/2018
13. Sexual Identity and Diaspora: Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr Loverman. Konferenz “On Whose Terms? – Ten Years Later” | Goldsmiths, University of London, UK | 23/03/2018
12. Precarious Urbanity: ‚The Jungle’ (Calais) and the Politics of Performing the Urban. PSA Convention 2017 | University of London, UK | 18/09/2017
11. Precarious Urbanity: ‚The Jungle’ (Calais) and the Politics of Performing the Urban. GAPS-Konferenz “Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World” | Universität Bonn | 25/05/2017
10. Precarious Urbanity: ‚The Jungle’ (Calais) and the Politics of Performing the Urban. EACLALS triennial conference “Performing the Urban: Embodiments, Inventories, Rhythms” | University of Oviedo, Spain | 15/04/2017
9. Sexual Identity and Diaspora: Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr Loverman. Hotspots Lecture Series, English Department Muenster | English Seminar, Münster | 25/01/2017
8. Critical Branding in Postcolonial Studies. ACLALS triennial conference “Stories that Float from Afar” | University of Stellenbosch, South Africa | 13/7/2016
7. Postcolonial Studies and the Market. GAPS-Konferenz “The Postcolonial and the Material” | Universität Augsburg | 05/05/2016
6. Orientalismen in der Postmoderne. Seminar der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung „Königreiche der Ungleichheit: Mechanismen der Ausgrenzung in der Popkultur“ | Akademie Frankenwarte, Würzburg | 15/01/2016
5. A Critique of Ideological Rejections of Market Practices in Postcolonial Studies. GAPS-Konferenz „Ideologies in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts“ | Universität Münster | 15/05/2015
4. Is Our Fascination with Uncommon Wealths Symptomatic of Our Own Frustration with 21st Century Capitalism? EACLALS triennial conference “Uncommon Wealths” | Universität Innsbruck, Austria | 17/04/2014
3. A Note on Interdisciplinary Debate: Postcolonialism and Economics – Commodification, Attitude, and Language Politics [Keynote]. “Platform for Postcolonial Readings at the University of Amsterdam” | University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands | 18/01/2013
2. Do You Sometimes Feel Marginalised? – The Commodification of Marginality in Robert Young’s Postcolonialism. A Very Short IntroductionConference “Narratives of Difference in the Global Literary Marketplace” | University of Northampton, UK | 26/10/2012
1. Postcolonialism Meets Business Management. GNEL/ASNEL-Konferenz “Post-Empire Imaginaries“ | Universität Bern, Switzerland | 18/05/2012