@juni-kvarving.bsky.social
American lit PhD at UKC writing about aesthetics and climate crisis 🌿 | Co-director of @NVPoco
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Are you a PGR interested in Postcolonial Studies? Are you interested in gaining experience in a director role? We want to hear from you!
The NVPoco network will need a new director for the coming academic year.
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In addition to this fantastic conference, a related special issue of European Journal of American Culture has been announced. Presenters & attendees will be invited to submit an expression of interest to have their work featured.
Deadline for abstracts: 31st July.
More details: buff.ly/C9E66Fn
Introducing our speakers! "The Dystopia" 3rd July 13:00-14:15 BST, Online featuring Eptisum Laskar, Jacob Moose, Yifei Jing (Peking University), and Brittney Finley (University of Kent) Pictured with sign "American Indian Movement" on the grounds of the Washington Monument, Washington, D.C., during the "Longest walk" by Warren Leffler “Martin Luther King, Jr., half-length portrait, facing left, speaking at microphones, during anti-war demonstration, New York City” by Don Rice “AIDS quilt on display in Washington, D.C., with the U.S. Capitol in the background” by Carol Highsmith “Washington Crossing the Delaware” by Emmanuel Leutze
Eptisum Laskar. “Dreaming Beyond Dystopia: Indigenous Futurism and Resistance in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves” Eptisum Laskar (she/her) is a graduate with a Master’s degree in English Literature from Diamond Harbour Women’s University. She completed her undergraduate studies at Al-Ameen Memorial Minority College, Kolkata. Her research interests encompass Memory Studies, Food Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Popular Culture, and Social Poetry. As an independent researcher, she aspires to pursue a Ph.D. in the future, aiming to contribute significantly to her field of study. Beyond her academic pursuits, Eptisum is an avid reader, writer, and artist, finding solace and inspiration in creative expression. Passionate about exploring the complexities of language and culture, she is committed to expanding her knowledge and engaging in meaningful scholarly contributions. Eptisum is pictured smiling and has long dark hair.
Jacob Moose. A Reimagined Light: Nature, Post-Human Urbanism, and the Subversion of the American Dream in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Series” Jacob Moose (he/him) is a recent graduate from KU Leuven with a Masters in Western Literature (MA) and Advanced Masters in Digital Humanities (M.Sc.). Following his thesis on representations of contested literary space in Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), he joined KU Leuven’s Special Collection’s library unit as a research intern. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. in urban literature studies and looking to expand his academic CV. He is currently working on a publication related to his work on A Brief History of Seven Killings. Jacob is pictured in a library smiling.
Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers!
Our first panel of the day is on the theme "The Dystopia" and will feature Eptisum Laskar, Jacob Moose, Yifei Jing (Peking University), and Brittney Finley (University of Kent)...
We thank our funders British Association for American Studies, Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies, and the University of Westminster!
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📍Online
🗓️ 3rd July 2025, 10:45am-12pm BST
Don't forget to sign up (for free!) using the QR code or the link in our bio✨
"The Poetics of Resistance" roundtable taking place 3rd July, 10:45am-12pm BST Online. Featuring Dr Kate Lewis-Hood (QMUL), Dr Rona Cran (University of Birmingham) and Dr Swati Rana (UCSB). The graphic features “Tipi with sign "American Indian Movement" on the grounds of the Washington Monument, Washington, D.C., during the "Longest walk" by Warren Leffler. “Martin Luther King, Jr., half-length portrait, facing left, speaking at microphones, during anti-war demonstration, New York City” by Don Rice. “AIDS quilt on display in Washington, D.C., with the U.S. Capitol in the background” by Carol Highsmith. “Washington Crossing the Delaware” by Emmanuel Leutze. There is also a QR code to scan to register for the event and a New Voices in Postcolonial Studies logo.
The graphoc contains the following information: Dr. Kate Lewis Hood (they/she) is an interdisciplinary scholar and writer, and a Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London. Kate's current book project, Overlapping Currents, considers how Black and Indigenous poetics address the durational and nonlinear effects of colonialism, racial capitalism, and heteropatriarchy in watery places in Turtle Island/North America and the Pacific islands. Kate's work attends to relationships between poetry and place-based practices of water protection, performance, and decolonial infrastructure-making, and seeks to be in conversation to build responsible anti-colonial, queer and feminist methodologies from the UK. Instagram: @coneffluents Kate is pictured outside smiling and has long blonde hair.
The graphic features the following information: Rona Cran (they/them) is a London-based writer and scholar. Their first poetry collection, I Remember Kim, was published with Verve Poetry Press in 2023. They are the author of Collage in Twentieth-Century Art, Literature, and Culture (2014) and the editor of Conversations with New York School Poets (2025). Forthcoming books include Multiple Voices: New York City Poetry from the Mimeograph Revolution to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic and Shadows and Benedictions: a personal history of sharks. They are Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century American Literature at the University of Birmingham, and the founding co-director of the Network for New York School Studies. Rona is pictured smiling in front of a brightly lit background and has long blonde hair.
The graphic features the following information: Swati Rana (she/her) is a poet and professor. She is the author of Race Characters, which explores how social personhood and literary persona intersect. Her creative writing has appeared in Asian American Literary Review, The Brooklyn Rail, The Dalhousie Review, Granta, The Immanent Frame, Jacket2, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Paris Review, swamp pink, Wasafiri, and elsewhere. Her literary criticism has appeared in Amerasia Journal, American Literature, American Literary History, the Journal of Asian American Studies, and The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature. In 2023, she received the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in Poetry. She teaches in the Department of English at University of California, Santa Barbara. Find her at www.swatirana.com. Swati is pictured smiling and has short curly dark hair.
Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers!
Our first roundtable of the day is on the theme "Poetics of Resistane" and will feature Dr Kate Lewis-Hood (QMUL), Dr Rona Cran (University of Birmingham), and Dr Swati Rana (UCSB)....
My creative non-fiction piece, Making/Unmaking, written for @nvpoco.bsky.social is now available to read online for free! Bringing together themes of sustainability, ancestral connection across continents, regional practices, making and unmaking of cultural identity.
www.yumpu.com/en/document/...
Meet the team! Juni Kvarving (she,her) Juni Kvarving is PhD researcher at the University of Kent writing about the narrative aesthetics of climate emergency and tipping points in contemporary American utopian novels post-2008. Alongside her studies, she has undertaken a placement at Wasafiri Magazine for International Contemporary Writing, edited for Holland House Books, and taught as an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Kent and Course Instructor at CIEE London. Juni us also co-director of the New Voices in Postcolonial Studies Network and co-editor of New Voices in Postcolonial Studies Magazine. Juni is pictured smiling and sitting in a library surrounded by books. She has long brown hair and a fringe, and is wearing dark clothes.
Meet @juni-kvarving.bsky.social
29.05.2025 22:39 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Excited to be working with these wonderful people!
29.05.2025 22:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Super excited to be organising this conference 🙌
Registration is now open! (And it’s free!)
It's officially out!!🎉
Yesterday evening we officially launched the New Voices in Postcolonial Studies Magazine No. 2: "Imagining Postcolonial Futures"!
(and It's open access: www.yumpu.com/en/document/...)
Loved putting this together with my friend and fellow researcher Soph, and we’re so excited to showcase the work of our brilliant contributors tomorrow at the launch! 💚
(more info below)
Excited to be sharing the exciting and hard work of our contributors soon! 🙌
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We're delighted to announce the launch of the latest issue of of New Voices in Postcolonial Studies Magazine edited by Soph Harris-Nijmeijer and Juni Kvarving (@juni-kvarving.bsky.social) on the theme of "Imagining Postcolonial Futures"!
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