Aylin Dilek Walder

As #Anglistiktag2025 comes to a close, an era of the journal ends with the editorial office heading to Graz for a fresh start 🗞️
it’s been a pleasure working with @victoriaherche.bsky.social and @gianlucacalio.bsky.social
in the past ☀️ all the best to the new editorship @juliahoydis.bsky.social 🍀

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Germany did for a while, but thinking about its past doesn’t give me hope for the future - just more anxiety … no matter the country …

Thank you for gifting me/us this fabulous tale - one of those stories that truly inspire to be(come) more 💫

back home from #GfF25 with an enjoyable keynote by @forgottencreatures.bsky.social on the history of beastiaries 🐲🦄 it’s been fun delving into the realm of creatures & animals again 🪼 also quite happy with the great feedback on my PhD project & talk about The Devourers @indrapramitdas.bsky.social 🐾💫

The debut issue of American Gothic Studies has now been published! To access, join The Society for the Study of the American Gothic at www.americangothicsociety.com. Free article from this issue at scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/art....

congrats! 🌿✨ counting down the days until I can start reading your new work 💫

Elif Shafak: A Sociological Exploration of Gender and Migration. Public lecture by Ahmet Yıkık. Presented and moderated by Aylin Walder. Cologne International Forum: Salon. 2 July 2025. 6pm.

for my Cologne peeps (and anyone willing to travel a little) 🍃

join Ahmet from the @ucy1.bsky.social and me to discuss #ElifShafak and what it means to be human 🌈🎓 a key question also guiding my own research 💫 #PhDSky #envhum

Reminder:
We would love to see you join us at this year's Virtual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (VICFA 4): Embodied Spirits!
The deadline to submit paper proposals, panel proposals, and creative proposals is June 30, 2025. Please visit our VICFA page for more details.

attended my first #DGfA25 ✨ fantastic community ~ inspiring keynotes ~ insightful panels ~ great coffee chats ✨ thanks to @danstein2025.bsky.social and his team for making it such a wonderful experience ✨

Collage of four photos featuring Katrin Horn speaking in front of a large room of people.

The second day of this year's annual conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA/GAAS) in Siegen started gloriously with an amazingly rich & entertaining talk on 19th-century epistolary culture & queer intimacy by @katrinhorn.bsky.social. #AmericanStudies #QueerStudies #DGfA2025

supi ✨ dann sehen wir uns 😌

“There are legends of people with the gift of making music so true it conjures spirits from the past and future.” 🎶

#Sinners cinematic exploration of temporality is so captivating it conjures its own affective spirits 👀

thrilled for you! ✨

Lost in the world of medical drama and nearly done with my talk for our BritCult workshop on illness and health next week. Super excited to see and meet everyone! 🩺🏥⚕️💊 More info here: www.britcult.de/category/wok...

I’ll definitely visit whenever possible 💞 latest for the DGfA 💫

thanks for all your support that has made this new chapter possible! 💞

thanks ✨

no worries and thank you! 🥹💫

switching from one great team to another is a total emotional rollercoaster🎢 I’m so grateful for all I learned from @judithrauscher.bsky.social @jpitettiheil.bsky.social @victoriaherche.bsky.social @sarahbusch.bsky.social❣️and also so touched by the heartwarming welcome @tubraunschweig.bsky.social 💫

Likewise! ✨

Excited to join this workshop on illness and health @uni-hamburg.de 🏥 while also taking some time to explore the city during its 836th Port Anniversary 🎉

Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre Examines how authors of color, in writing against white-dominated, Eurocentric fantasy narratives, counteract Christian and colonial tropes and offer alternate versions of morality, race, gender, and ...

Hi All! I am a scholar of BIPOC science fiction and fantasy literature. My new book Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre is now available to preoder. I am so excited to see this book, the companion to my first book Diverse Futures, come to life: ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

Looking forward to the #envhum lecture by Malcom Ferdinand - author of #decolonial #ecology 🌿

Selfie of me in a petrol coat and Grey scarf in don't of the conference poster, which reads "Ecoterrorism in Amglophone Media" and features a green wrench.

Photo of a young woman behind a standing desk. The screen behind her shows the title of her presentation.

Photo of the American Studies group who attended the conference in front of the conference poster. Everyone is smiling widely

Photo of Burak Sezer, one of the co-organizers of the conference standing next to.a.large projection of the conference poster

I had the best time these the 2 days at the conference "Ecoterrorism in Anglophone Media." I was so proud of my student assistant, Una, who gave a great talk & loved that several Cologne students came to support her & another student who presented. Thank you, Burak & Sascha, for this amazing event!

Am 22. November veranstaltet das DFG-Netzwerk „Energie & Literatur“ online den Workshop „Energy & Gender“. Herzliche Einladung! Weitere Informationen & Zugangsinformationen unter: energyandliterature.wordpress.com/events/ @victoriaherche.bsky.social @untamed.bsky.social @juliaditter.bsky.social

Poster for the workshop, for the info it contains and a programme of the workshop, follow the link in the post!

Always wanted to create a more diverse and safer leaning environment for people? Come to our free workshop "Queering the Classroom" @UniCologne Oct 4-5 that uses theatre to learn about equality! 🎭🌈
For more info and programme: anglistik1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/abteilungen-...

Just wrapped up an incredible time at the #FantasticClimates conference 🌍 Thanks to the incredible organisers and @anotherdramakid.bsky.social for the opportunity to dive into #EcoGothic themes in #GameofThrones ❄️ who knew Westeros had so much to teach us about our own climate challenges? 🩵

back from the interdisciplinary #conference on Communicating #Climate Hope at the Tilburg University 🌿 it’s been a pleasure to talk about #fantastic stories of climate #hope and ideas on reconciliation with Nature 🌻

back from the fabulous @sfrareview.bsky.social conference @ Tartu 🚀 speculating with old and newfound friends has truly been a pleasure 🔮

discussions on #materialism 🧬 #cofuturism ✨ #science 🔬 and #games filled me with inspiration for my journey to unknown terrains 🪐