New Voices in Postcolonial Literature Network

You can express interest and ask further questions about the director role(s) at newvoicespocostudies@gmail.com. The deadline to apply for the position(s) is July 31st 2025 at 17PM GMT. We look forward to hearing from you!🎉

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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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The Heavy Metal Festival Aiming to Curb Teen Suicide How Fire in the Mountains, a heavy metal festival, aims to curb teen suicide among Native American populations.

At the @nvpoco.bsky.social American Dreams/Nightmares symposium last week, I linked 'genre sovereignty' in film/TV to other things, incl. music. The Firekeepers Alliance (& this fest moving to Blackfeet country) is metal & 'genre sovereignty' in action: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Dr. Mike Collins (he/him) is a Reader in American Studies at KCL and Chair of the British Association for American Studies. He is the author of two monographs, The Drama of the American Short Story (Michigan) and Exoteric Modernisms: Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life (EUP) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story (with Gavin Jones). He has published numerous articles in a range of journals. Most recently, he has been working on topics relating to intelligence testing, The Panama Canal, and the American Civil Service in literature and culture.

With thanks to our funders British Association for American Studies, University of Westminster, and Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies!

...and Dr Jonathan Ward (KCL) in the form of a panel speaking to the American Dream / American Nightmare in 2025.

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Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers! Last, but certainly not least, the keynote for the in-person conference day will feature Dr Christopher Lloyd (University of Hertfordshire), Dr Elsa Devienne (Northumbria University), Dr Mike Collins (KCL), and Dr Jonathan Ward (KCL) in the form of a panel speaking to the American Dream / American Nightmare in 2025. 📍Portland Hall, 4-12 Little Titchfield Street, W1W 7BY 🗓️ 4th July 2025, 15:30-17:00 BST Don't forget to sign up (for free!) using the QR code or the link in our bio✨ 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

Christopher Lloyd (he/him) is an Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching at the University of Hertfordshire. He is the author of two books on contemporary culture from the US South, two edited collections on pedagogy and millennial fiction, and a forthcoming book on queerness and the nonhuman. He is the host of the Books Up Close podcast and YouTube channel, and the Vice-Chair of the British Association for American Studies.

Elsa Devienne (she/her) is Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at Northumbria University. Her first book, Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (Oxford UP, 2024) won the Willi Paul Adams Award awarded by the Organization of American Historians. She is currently working on two projects: the first is on the history of mobilisations against plastics in the US; and the second, on car dominance and mobility justice, is inspired by her daily struggles cycling and walking in Manchester, where she lives with her partner and two sons. As a member of the executive board of the British Association of American Studies since 2020 and co-lead for GREEN BAAS, its environmental and sustainability network, she has led on a number of initiatives to centre environmental justice in the field at large. Bluesky: @elsadevienne.bsky.social

Dr. Jonathan Ward (he/him) is a Lecturer in Race and Diversity Studies at King's College London, in the Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries. His research is generally interested in somatic disciplinarity and representations of the body in visual, literary, and popular culture. He is currently working on a monograph entitled “What Is It?”: Examining the Construction of the Black Male Body as Threat in American Visual Culture. His recent work examines “misremembrance” of racialized histories and coloniality in popular culture, the figure of the “White Saviour” in US popular film, the representation of Meghan Markle on Instagram, and the relationship of colonialism to Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther. He is the founder of The Abolitionist Curriculum. Twitter: @drjonward

Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers!

Last, but certainly not least, the keynote for the in-person conference day will feature Dr Christopher Lloyd (University of Hertfordshire), @elsadevienne.bsky.social (Northumbria University), Dr Mike Collins (KCL)...

With thanks to our funders British Association for American Studies, University of Westminster, and Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies!

...and Dr Jade Jenkinson (University of Nottingham).

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Introducing the “American Dream/American Nightmare” conference speakers! Our second roundtable of the in-person day is on the theme “The American Gothic, Weird Fiction, and Bodily Horror” and will feature Dr Jimmy Packham (University of Birmingham), Dr Juha Virtanen (University of Kent), and Dr Jade Jenkinson (University of Nottingham). 📍Portland Hall, 4-12 Little Titchfield Street, W1W 7BY 🗓️ 4th July 2025, 11:30-12:45 BST Don’t forget to sign up (for free!) using the QR code or the link in our bio ✨ 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

Jimmy Packham (he/him) is a senior lecturer in North American Literature at the University of Birmingham, with research specialisms in the Gothic (British and US) and the blue humanities. His first book, Gothic Utterance (2021, UWP), explored the role of haunted and revenant voices – and their ethical imperatives – in the nineteenth-century US Gothic tradition. He has recently completed two books: The Seabed: A Human and Literary History, co-authored with Laurence Publicover (Bristol) (forthcoming from U Chicago P) and Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020, for Cambridge UP's Elements in the Gothic series. He is the co-convenor of the Haunted Shores research network. Jimmy is pictured smiling

uha Virtanen’s (he/him) previous publications include Poetry and Performance During the British Poetry Revival 1960-1980: Event and Effect, as well as the poetry books Back Channel Apraxia, -LAND, and DOOM ENGINES. He has written academic articles on various topics ranging from the possibility of radical politics in comic book supervillains to hostile environments and Necropolitics in contemporary poetry, and he has most recently been thinking about vertigo and sinking in the work of Jeff VanderMeer. His current longer-term research project focuses on a complex spectrum of “apocalyptic feelings”, which he explores – in part – through speculative writing, ecology, and autoethnographic methodologies; in addition, his current creative practice centres on the idea of wrecks and wreckage. He is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Kent, and currently lives along the coast in Thanet. IG: @j.p.virtanen Juha is pictured smiling

Jade completed her PhD in 2024 and has since contributed a chapter to the forthcoming volume Global Indigenous Horror (2025). She is currently adapting her thesis into a monograph and preparing articles for journals including Literature, Critique and Empire Today and Comparative American Studies. She works for a doctoral training partnership supporting PhD students with training and placements, serves on the Code of Conduct Board for the British Association of American Studies, and is a copyeditor for the University of Wales Press’s Gothic series. Jade is pictured smiling

Introducing the “American Dream/American Nightmare” conference speakers!

Our second roundtable of the in-person day is on the theme “The American Gothic, Weird Fiction, and Bodily Horror” and will feature Dr Jimmy Packham (University of Birmingham), Dr Juha Virtanen (University of Kent)...

With thanks to our funders British Association for American Studies, University of Westminster, and Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies!

....Izzy Hardin, and Lea Pešec (University of Graz).

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Introducing the “American Dream/American Nightmare” conference speakers! Our first panel of the in-person day is on the theme of “Two-Spirit, Trans, and Drag Potentialities in the North American Context” and will feature Albert McLeod (Nisichawayasihk Cree), Izzy Hardin, and Lea Pešec (University of Graz). 📍Portland Hall, 4-12 Little Titchfield Street, W1W 7BY 🗓️ 4th July 2025, 13:45-15:00 BST Don’t forget to sign up (for free!) using the QR code or the link in our bio ✨ 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

Albert McLeod (FAB) is a Status Indian with ancestry from Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and the Metis communities of Norway House and Cross Lake in northern Manitoba. His family’s involvement in the Hudson’s Bay Company fur trade began in the early days of European contact and has spanned many generations. Born and raised in the small village of Cormorant, Albert’s family moved to the town of The Pas in 1963 where he lived until he was nineteen. In 1979, Albert moved to Vancouver and joined the Greater Vancouver Native Cultural Society (Canada’s first Two-Spirit community organization). Later, in Winnipeg, he was one of the organizers of the Nichiwakan Native Gay Society, (Winnipeg first Two-Spirit community organization) and participated in the first annual international Two-Spirit gathering in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1988. Albert has attended over twenty of the 37 Annual International Two-Spirit Gatherings. He has over thirty years of experience as a human rights activist and is one of the directors of the Two-Spirited People of Manitoba (www.twospiritmanitoba.ca ). Albert began his Two-Spirit advocacy in Winnipeg in 1986 and became an HIV/AIDS activist in 1987. He was the director of the Manitoba Aboriginal AIDS Task Force from 1991 to 2001. In 2018, Albert received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Winnipeg. He was also a member of the sub-working group that produced the MMIWG - 2SLGBTQQIA+ National Action Plan Report in 2020-2021. In 2020, Albert joined Team Thunderhead, the team that recently won the international competition to design the 2SLGBTQI+ National Monument in Ottawa. Albert lives in Winnipeg, where he works as a consultant specializing in Indigenous peoples, 2Spirit history and identity, cultural reclamation, and cross-cultural training. 2spiritconsultants.ca, albertmcleod.com Albert is pictured smiling

Trans Potentiality and State Mobilisation of Historical Figures” Izzy Hardin (they/them) has just finished their Master of Studies in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Oxford. They graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2024 with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts, where they focused on history, gender studies, and theatre. They are from Asheville, North Carolina. Izzy is pictured laughing

“What Happens When the American Body Goes Drag?” Lea Pešec (she/her) is a doctoral candidate at the University of Graz in cultural studies with a diverse academic background, including degrees Sociology (BA), English Language and Literature (BA), and English and American Studies (MA). She has completed her joint MA degree with a focus on cultural studies at the University of Graz and the University of Bamberg, and graduated with distinction. Her Master’s thesis explored drag queen autobiographies as written performances. Currently, Lea is working on her PhD dissertation on the topic of exploring drag performers’ online and offline identities in the contemporary US-American context. Lea is also an affiliated student with the Aging in Data Project and a board member of the Austria’s Young Americanists network. In terms of research, Lea has an interest in gender and queer studies, visual studies, identity, and digitalization. She is also a photographer with national and international awards. Lea also has experience in academic roles and currently serves as a Project Manager, leading AI and Digital Transformation initiatives. Lea is pictured smiling

Introducing the “American Dream/American Nightmare” conference speakers!

Our first panel of the in-person day is on the theme of “Two-Spirit, Trans, and Drag Potentialities in the North American Context” and will feature Albert McLeod (Nisichawayasihk Cree)...

Thanks to our funders British Association for American Studies, University of Westminster, Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies!

...Dr Shelley Angelie Saggar (Goldsmiths) @sharinglands.bsky.social , and Fatma Tabassum (Rama Devi Women's University).

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🗓️ 4th July 2025, 9:45-11:00 BST

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Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers! Our first panel of the in-person day is on the theme "Along State Lines: Nation and Nationalism, Borders, and Changing Territories/Landscapes" and will feature Dr Ananya Mishra (QMUL), Dr Shelley Angelie Saggar (Goldsmiths), and Fatma Tabassum (Rama Devi Women's University). 📍Portland Hall, 4-12 Little Titchfield Street, W1W 7BY 🗓️ 4th July 2025, 9:45-11:00 BST Don't forget to sign up (for free!) using the QR code or the link in our bio✨ 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

Ananya Mishra (she/her) is a Lecturer in Global Race Studies at the Department of English in School of the Arts, Queen Mary University of London. She is currently working on her monograph Evidentiary Literatures: Refusal and Resurgence in Global Indigenous Texts. Her recent publications include a reflective paper titled “‘Jami Chadiba Nahin: We Will Not Leave this Land’: Materiality and Imagination in Indigenous Land Ethics” in British Association of American Studies (BAAS) special issue in New Area Studies, Vol. 4.3 (2024), and a co-written chapter titled “Common Worlds and Common Words in Lionel Fogarty’s India Poems” in Lionel Fogarty’s Poetry and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).

Dr Shelley Angelie Saggar (they/she) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. They are researching Choctaw and Irish (hi)stories of culinary migration and sustenance as part of the AHRC-funded 'Sharing Lands: Reconciliation, Recognition & Reciprocity' project. Their research examines the intersections between Indigenous literary studies and museum practice, taking an interdisciplinary approach with the aim of bridging these fields. Shelley's wider research interests include Fourth Cinema, environmental heritage and museum studies. Their work has been published in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the Journal of Museum Ethnography and ART HX. X/Twitter: @j4lebi/@thechoctawtgift IG: @sharing_lands Bluesky: @sharinglands.bsky.social Web: https://sharinglands.com/

am originally from Cuttack, Odisha. I completed my B.Sc. in Zoology from Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar, and subsequently earned an M.A. in English Literature from Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. After qualifying for the UGC NET-JRF, I joined the Department of English at Rama Devi Women’s University as a Ph.D. scholar in 2024. My research focuses on Intersectionality in the life writings of non-white American Women Celebrities. My academic interests lie at the intersection of life writing, migration studies, postcolonial identity, and celebrity studies. Outside of my research, I enjoy travelling and gardening.

Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers!

Our first panel of the in-person day is on the theme "Along State Lines: Nation and Nationalism, Borders, and Changing Territories/Landscapes" and will feature Dr Ananya Mishra (QMUL)...

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We're excited to introduce the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference online day keynote! Dr Lucy Bond (University of Westminster) will be speaking on "Capitalising on the Past: Heritage, Industry, and the Environmental Racism in the American Gulf States". 📍Online 🗓️ 3rd July 2025, 9:45-10:45 BST Don't forget to sign up (for free!) using the QR code or the link in our bio ✨ 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

Lucy Bond (she/ her) is Head of the School of Humanities and Reader in Literature and Memory Studies at the University of Westminster. She has published widely on the culture and politics of memory and trauma. Her work includes: Frames of Memory After 9/11: Culture, Criticism, Politics and Law (Palgrave, 2015), and the New Critical Idiom guide to Trauma (Routledge, 2020, co-authored with Stef Craps). Lucy has also published a number of edited collections, including: The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders (de Gruyter, 2014); Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies (Berghahn, 2016); and Planetary Memory in Contemporary American Fiction (Routledge, 2018). Lucy is pictured smiling.

With thanks to our funders British Association for American Studies, University of Westminster, and The Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies!

We're excited to introduce the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference online day keynote! Dr Lucy Bond (University of Westminster) will be speaking on "Capitalising on the Past: Heritage, Industry, and the Environmental Racism in the American Gulf States"...

Thanks @claremmulroy @usatoday. In this age of #bookbans and #anti-DEI efforts, it's more important than ever to share our stories. That's how we change America for the better. #writers

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Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers! Our final event of the day is a Conversation with Curtis Chin, author of "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" (2023). 📍Online 🗓️ 3rd July 2025, 17:00-17:45 BST Don't forget to sign up (for free!) using the QR code or the link in our bio ✨

Curtis Chin: A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin (he/him) served as the non-profits’ first Executive Director. He went on to write comedy for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries. Chin has screened his films at over 600 venues in twenty countries. He has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press, and the Emancipator/Boston Globe. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Chin has received awards from ABC/Disney Television, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and more. His memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant was published by Little, Brown in Fall 2023. His essay in Bon Appetit was selected for Best Food Writing in America 2023. Curtis is pictures smiling.

With thanks to our funders British Association of American Studies, Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies, and the University of Westminster!

Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers!

Our final event of the day is a Conversation with Curtis Chin (@curtischin.bsky.social), author of "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" (2023)...

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Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers! Our third roundtable of the day is on "Indigenous Horror on Turtle Island" and will feature Dr Krista Collier-Jarvis (Pictou Landing Mi'kmaw Nation)(Mount Saint Vincent University) and Tiffany Morris (Mi'kmaw). pi 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

Krista Collier-Jarvis (she/her) is a member of the Mi’kmaw First Nation and an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Mount Saint Vincent University. She teaches American and Indigenous literatures, climate fiction, and film. She has published several articles and book chapters, including uncanny play in Pet Sematary, haunting back in Blood Quantum, endemicity in The Last of Us, and the rise of the rhizombie. She recently completed a two-week horror writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity under the mentorship of Shane Hawk where she worked on Indigenous horror. Krista is the co-lead on the Two-Eyed Seeing project and is the Early Career Representative for the Indigenous Literary Studies Association. Social media: @lnuonhorror (Twitter and Bsky) Photo cred: Krista Collier-Jarvis wearing a medallion made by local artist Crystin Edwards and gifted to Krista by Dr. Margaret Robinson on the day of her PhD defence. (Nick Pearce photos)

Tiffany Morris (she/her) is an L’nu’skw (Mi’kmaw) writer from Nova Scotia. She is the author of the ecohorror novella Green Fuse Burning and the Elgin Award-winning horror poetry collection Elegies of Rotting Stars. Her work has appeared in the Indigenous horror anthology Never Whistle At Night, as well as in Nightmare Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, and Apex Magazine, among others. Her MA thesis, “The Apocalypse Will Not Be Colonized: Crisis, Monsters, and Futurism in Recent Indigenous Narratives” won the Acadia University Outstanding Masters Research Award in 2022. tiffanymorris.ca Bluesky: @tiffmorris Tiffany is pictured smiling and has red hair.

Thanks to our funders British Association for American Studies, Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies, and the University of Westminster!

Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers!

Our third roundtable of the day is on "Indigenous Horror on Turtle Island" and will feature Dr Krista Collier-Jarvis (@lnuonhorror.bsky.social) and Tiffany Morris (@tiffmorris.bsky.social) .

Thank you to our funders British Association for American Studies, The Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies, and the University of Westminster!

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Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers! Our second roundtable of the day is on "Perspectives within "New" and "Emerging" Media" and will feature Prof John Wills (University of Kent), Dr Stephen Morgan (KCL), and Dr Sara Polak (Leiden University). 📍Online 🗓️ 3rd July 2025, 14:15-15:30 BST Don't forget to sign up (for free!) using the QR code or the link in our bio ✨ i 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

John Wills is a Professor in Film and Media at the University of Kent, UK and a co-editor of the European Journal of American Culture (Intellect). His research interests include atomic film and culture, environmental protest and environmental disaster, and US game studies. John is the author of seven books, including, most recently, Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019) and with Esther Wright, Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth and Violence in the Video Game West (Oklahoma UP, 2023). He is currently completing a new book, on Doom Town and atomic culture, with the University Press of Kansas Social Media: @drjonw (X); @drjohnwills.bsky.social (BlueSky) John is pictured wearing glasses.

Dr. Stephen Morgan (he/him) is Lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London. His research focuses on the cinemas of settler nations, as well as the Indigenous cinemas of Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa / New Zealand. Broader efforts to reconceptualise settler national cinema in these spaces includes his upcoming monograph, Ealing Abroad: Post-War British Cinema, Settler Colonialism and Ealing Studios in Australia, which will be published by BFI/Bloomsbury in 2026. Bluesky: @drsmorgan.com Stephen is pictured in black and white smiling

Sara Polak (she/her) is university lecturer in American Studies at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, research fellow on the NWO project Playing Politics: Media Platforms Making Worlds, and PI of the ERC project Worlding America: How Play Shaped the United States from New Media to Politics, 1503-2028. She has published a monograph FDR in American Memory (John Hopkins UP, 2021) and is working on a book about How Trump Plays. @sarapolak.bsky.social Sara is pictured smiling.

Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers!

Our second roundtable is on "Perspectives within "New" and "Emerging" Media" and will feature Prof John Wills (@drjohnwills.bsky.social ), Dr Stephen Morgan (@drsmorgan.com ), and Dr Sara Polak (@sarapolak.bsky.social )...

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📍Online 🗓️ 3rd July 2025, 13:00-14:15 BST Don't forget to sign up (for free!) using the QR code or the link in our bio ✨ 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

“The Black Body in Contemporary African American Fiction: A Dissection of Spectacular Violence in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenya’s Friday Black (2018)” Carla Abella Rodríguez (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Advanced English Studies at Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), where she has been granted the fellowship Ayuda para la Formación de Profesorado Universitario from the Spanish Ministry of Universities. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in English Studies at Universidad de León and later pursued a Masters in Advanced English Studies at Universidad de Salamanca. She took part in Erasmus+ programmes at University of Exeter and University of Reading, and she has been a visiting scholar at University of Oxford. She is writing her thesis on African American literature and culture. Her areas of interest include African American literature, American studies, hospitality theory, body studies, surveillance studies, (anti-)Blackness and literary representations of the Black body. She is a member of the research group Discursos y Poética de la (Post) Modernidad (Universidad de Salamanca) and of the research projects Historia Crítica de la Literatura Étnica Norteamericana (CHEAL) and Geografías Circulares: Nomadismo y Pertenencia en la Literatura Étnica Norteamericana Contemporánea. Instagram: @carla.5 Carla is pictured outside smiling.

“The MFA Nightmare: Mona Awad’s Bunny (2019) and the Subversion of Campus Fiction” Anouk Herman (she/they) is a PhD candidate in literary studies at University of Silesia in Katowice. Their academic interests include contemporary queer literature and feminist horror fiction. ORCID: 0000-0003-1791-2551 Instagram: @anouk.herman Anouk is pictured smiling.

Thank you to our funders British Association for American Studies, Centre for Settler Colonial Studies, and the University of Wetsminster!

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Our third panel of the day is on "The Body" and will feature Carla Abella Rodriquez (Universidad de Salamanca) and Anouk Hreman (University of Silesia)...

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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Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers! Our second panel of the day is on the theme "The American Dream/American Nightmare on Film" and will feature Upasana Sarangi (KIIT), Nick Berbiers (University of Kent) and Tweed (Native Spirit Film Festival). 📍Online 🗓️ 3rd July 2025, 13:00-14:15 BST Don't forget to sign up (for free!) using the QR code or the link in our bio ✨ 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

Upasana Sarangi “The Horrors of What Could Have Been: The Spectral American Dream in Past Lives (2023)” Upasana Sarangi (she/her) is a PhD student and faculty associate at the Kaalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, currently working on her thesis on the Affective Dimensions and Postmemory in Select Human Rights Literature. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, gender studies, popular culture, and psychoanalytic studies. She has presented papers in the areas of postfeminism and Indigenous knowledge systems. Instagram: @upasanasarangi Upasana is pictured smiling and has long dark hair and glasses.

Nick Berbiers "From Kennedy’s Moon to Fallen Liberty: American Dreams and Nightmares Reflected in the Original Planet of the Apes Films (1968-1973)” Nick Berbiers (he/him) is a final year PhD student at the University of Kent.

Tweed “Turtle Island Tales” Tweed (no pronouns, please refer to by name) is the director of Native Spirit Film Festival @nativespirituk Tweed is pictured smiling

Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers!

Our second panel of the day is on the theme "The American Dream/American Nightmare on Film" and will feature Upasana Sarangi (KIIT), Nick Berbiers (University of Kent) and Tweed (Native Spirit Film Festival)...

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

Yifei Jing “Centering the Border: Place, Motion, and Indigeneity in Gerald Vizenor’s Treaty Shirts” Yifei Jing (he/him) is a PhD candidate at the Department of English, Peking University. His research interests include Native North American literatures, and his ongoing dissertation project explores works of various genres by Anishinaabe literary artist and critic Gerald Vizenor. Yifei is pictured outside smiling.

“Ecological Eschatology: Fallout of the American Dream” Brittney Finley (she/they) is a Media Studies PhD student at the University of Kent who received her second master’s at the University of California Los Angeles. Her research areas of interest include trans-medial Ecocriticism, nuclear aestheticism, and gender studies.

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, 13:00-14:15 BST

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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

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"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.
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