Locating African European Studies
Drawing on a rich lineage of anti-discriminatory scholarship, art, and activism, Locating African European Studies engages with contemporary and historical African European formations, positionalities, politics, and cultural productions in Europe.
Locating African European Studies reflects on the meanings, objectives, and contours of this field. Twenty-six activists, academics, and artists cover a wide range of topics, engaging with processes of affiliation, discrimination, and resistance. They negotiate the methodological foundations of the field, explore different meanings and politics of African and European, and investigate African European representations in literature, film, photography, art, and other media. In three thematic sections, the book focusses on:
African European social and historical formations
African European cultural production
Decolonial academic practice
Locating African European Studies features innovative transdisciplinary research, and will be of interest to students and scholars of various fields, including Black Studies, Critical Whiteness Studies, African American Studies, Diaspora Studies, Postcolonial Studies, African Studies, History, and Social Sciences.
Felipe Espinoza Garrido is Assistant Professor of English, Postcolonial and Media Studies at the University of Mnster, Germany.
Caroline Koegler is Assistant Professor of British Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Mnster, Germany.
Deborah Nyangulu is Lecturer in English, Postcolonial Studies and Media Studies at the University of Mnster, Germany.
Mark U. Stein is the Chair of English, Postcolonial and Media Studies at University of Mnster, Germany.
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Interventions, Intersections, Conversations
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Locating African European Studies
Interventions, Intersections, Conversations
Edited by Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Caroline Koegler, Deborah Nyangulu, and Mark U. Stein
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Contents
Editors
Felipe Espinoza Garrido is Assistant Professor of English, Postcolonial and Media Studies at the University of Mnster, where he received his PhD with a thesis on Post-Thatcherism in British Film. He is currently researching a book on empire imaginations in rediscovered womens sensation fiction. His research interests also include Neo-Victorian Studies and transmedia franchises, as well as Adaptation Studies. He has published on popular fiction and film, among others in The Journal of European Popular Culture and The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing (CUP, 2020, with Julian Wacker), and a co-edited collection on Black Neo-Victoriana is forthcoming (Brill, 2020, with Marlena Tronicke and Julian Wacker).
Caroline Koegler is Assistant Professor of British Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Mnster. She has published on the Jungle of Calais and the politics of performing the urban, Caribbean literature, queer sexualities/positionalities, Judith Butler, postcolonial intertextuality, the financial crisis, and the market and ideology in Postcolonial Studies (forthcoming). Her monograph, Critical Branding: Postcolonial Studies and the Market, was published with Routledge in 2018; two co-edited special issues are forthcoming, one on queer Neo-Victorian Studies (Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies, with Marlena Tronicke) and one on the colonial undercurrents of Brexit (Journal of Postcolonial Writing, with Pavan Malreddy and Marlena Tronicke). She is currently working on a second monograph, on the politics of emotion in long-eighteenth-century literature.
Deborah Nyangulus research and teaching interests focus on African (literary) Studies, critical theory, and, more recently, social media and social movements. She has read for a BA (University of Malawi), MA (University of Mnster), and PhD (University of Mnster). Nyangulu is currently a lecturer in English, Postcolonial and Media Studies at the University of Mnster, where she is preparing her monograph, Big Man Aesthetics: Masculinity, Power, and Contemporary African Literature, for publication. Her work has appeared in the journal Research in African Literatures, and she was a 2019 fellow at the Institute for Critical and Social Inquiry (ICSI) at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Her next book-length project will examine how hashtag activism is shifting the contours of knowledge production.