Publications

Research Monograph

Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing: Making Love, Making Worlds. Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing. Eds. Gina Wisker, Denise deCaires Narain and Andrea Quaid. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. [hardback 2021; paperback 2022]

Editorial Work

Special Issues:

Dependent Selves: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life Writing and the Study of Dependency. Special Issue. Life Writing. With Pia Wiegmink. In preparation.

Indentured Bodies / Embodiments of Indenture. Special Issue. Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies. With Sinah Kloß. In preparation.

Ecological Solidarities across Post/Colonial Worlds. Double Special Issue. Postcolonial Text. 2024. 19:1&2.

Ecocritical Perspectives on the Long Nineteenth Century: Form, Materiality, Politics. Special Issue. Anglia: Journal of English Philology. 2024. 142: 1. With Stefanie John.

Edited Volumes:

Ecological Inter/Dependencies: Strong Asymmetrical Relations and More-than-Human Worlds. Eds. Jennifer Leetsch and Zeynep Y. Gökçe. Berlin: De Gruyter. In preparation. CfP.

Configurations of Migration: Knowledges – Imaginaries – Media. Eds. Jennifer Leetsch, Frederike Middelhoff and Miriam Wallraven. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2023.

Journal Articles

“New Ways of Telling True Stories: Reflections on Ecological Solidarities across Post/Colonial Worlds.” With Arunima Bhattacharya, Trang Dang, Baldeep Kaur, Hannah Nelson-Teutsch, Alisa Preusser, Peri Sipahi and Christina Slopek-Hauff. Postcolonial Text. Double Special Issue: Ecological Solidarities across Post/Colonial Worlds. Ed. Jennifer Leetsch. 2024. 19:1&2.

“Oceanic Kinship and Coastal Ecologies: More-than-Human Encounters in Cristina Ali Farah’s ‘A Dhow Crosses the Sea.’” Postcolonial Text. Double Special Issue: Ecological Solidarities across Post/Colonial Worlds. Ed. Jennifer Leetsch. 2024. 19:1&2.

“Introduction: Disturbing the Sedimentations of Nineteenth-Century Environments.” With Stefanie John. Anglia: Journal of English Philology. Research Cluster: Ecocritical Perspectives on the Long Nineteenth Century: Form, Materiality, Politics. Eds. Stefanie John and Jennifer Leetsch. 2024. 142:1. 1–10.

“From Instagram Poetry to Autofictional Memoir and Back Again: Experimental Black Life Writing in Yrsa Daley-Ward’s Work.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. Special Issue: Contemporary Black British Women’s Writing. Eds. Elisabeth Bekers, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett and Helen Cousins. 2022. 41:2, 301–326.

“Mary Seacole’s Plant Matter(s): Vegetal Entanglements of the Black Atlantic in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands.” EJES: The European Journal of English Studies. Special Issue: Victorian Materialisms. Eds. Ursula Kluwick and Ariane de Waal. 2022. 26:1, 42–65.

“Playing with Saris: Material and Affective Unfoldings in Shailja Patel’s Migritude”. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Special Issue: Visualizing Violence. Eds. Hella Cohen and Sreyoshi Sarkar. 2021. 23:5, 691–711.

“Of Suitcases and Gunny Sacks: The Poetics of Travel in M. G. Vassanji and Shailja Patel”. Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium. Special Issue: Postcolonial Narrations. 2019. 4:1, 60–77.

“Ocean Imaginaries in Warsan Shire's Afro-Diasporic Poetry”. Journal of the African Literature Association. Special Issue: The Environments of African Literature. Ed. Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi. 2019. 13:1, 80–95.

“Love, Limb-Loosener: Encounters in Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah”. Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Special Issue: Critical Love Studies. Eds. Amy Burge and Michael Gratzke. 2017. 6, 1–16.

Book Chapters

“Mary Prince’s Slave Narrative and its Legal (After)Life: The Interplay of Gender, Law and Literature in The History of Mary Prince.” Feminist Perspectives on Law and Literature. Eds. Hanna Luise Kroll, Laura Schmitz-Justen, Laura Wittmann and Laura Zander. Berlin: De Gruyter. Forthcoming 2024.

“Between Home and Away: Contemporary Black British Poetry.” The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature. Eds. Lokangaka Losambe and Tanure Ojaide. London/New York: Routledge. 2024.

“Introduction: Configurations of Migration.” Configurations of Migration: Knowledges – Imaginaries – Media. Eds. Jennifer Leetsch, Frederike Middelhoff and Miriam Wallraven. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2023. 1–13.

“Imagining Migration In-Between: A Conversation with Charl Landvreugd.” With Heike Raphael-Hernandez. Configurations of Migration: Knowledges – Imaginaries – Media. Eds. Jennifer Leetsch, Frederike Middelhoff and Miriam Wallraven. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2023. 17–26.

“Walking the Land: Theatre, Landscape and Britain’s Migratory Past in Black Men Walking.” Configurations of Migration: Knowledges – Imaginaries – Media. Eds. Jennifer Leetsch, Frederike Middelhoff and Miriam Wallraven. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2023. 197–218.

“Concluding Remarks: (Strange) Migratory Encounters.” Configurations of Migration: Knowledges – Imaginaries – Media. Eds. Jennifer Leetsch, Frederike Middelhoff and Miriam Wallraven. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2023. 219–224.

“Loneliness and Contested Communities in Mary Prince’s Slave Narrative The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself (1831).” The Routledge History of Loneliness. Eds. Katie Barclay, Elaine Chalus and Deborah Simonton. London/New York: Routledge. 2023. 238–252.

“Translocations of Desire: Urban Topographies of Love in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah”. Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture. Spatial Practices, Volume: 35. Eds. Ágnes Györke and Imola Bülgözdi. Leiden: Brill/Rodopi. 2020. 181–198.

“Opening Homes, Opening Worlds: African European Spatial Interventions in Helen Oyeyemi’s Fiction”. Locating African European Studies: Interventions, Intersections, Conversations. Eds. Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Caroline Koegler, Deborah Nyangulu and Mark Stein. London/New York: Routledge. 2019. 153–164.

“Pop & Porno: Gegen-Körper, Gegen-Blicke”. Kulturen der Pornografie: Annäherungen an ein Massenphänomen. Eds. Daniel Schulze and Andrea Stiebritz. WVT: Trier. 2016. 135–146.

Shorter Texts

Book Review. “The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery, edited by Laura T. Murphy.” Journal of Global Slavery. Forthcoming 2024.

“Migratory Theatre and Diasporic Communities.” The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Visual Culture. Eds. Barry Sandywell and Martin Hand. Section: Globalities (ed. Heike Raphael-Hernandez). London: Bloomsbury. Forthcoming 2024.

“Western Perception of Non-Western Art as Barbaric and Primitive.” The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Visual Culture. Eds. Barry Sandywell and Martin Hand. Section: Globalities (ed. Heike Raphael-Hernandez). London: Bloomsbury. Forthcoming 2024.

“Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince (1831).” Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming 2024.

Book Review. “African-Caribbean Women Interrogating Diaspora/Post-Diaspora, edited by Suzanne Scafe and Leith Dunn.” New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 97 (3–4). 2023. 396–397.

“Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi”. The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: Postwar and Contemporary English Writing and Culture, 1945-present. Eds. Valerie Kaneko-Lucas, Kerry Myler, Deirdre Osborne, Judith Rahn and Jenni Ramone. 2019.

“Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi”. The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: Postwar and Contemporary English Writing and Culture, 1945-present. Eds. Valerie Kaneko-Lucas, Kerry Myler, Deirdre Osborne, Judith Rahn and Jenni Ramone. 2019.

“Warsan Shire.” Black British Women Writers. Ed. Elisabeth Bekers. Vrije Universiteit Brussel. 2018. Web.

“Zappelräume: Über Sara Ahmed”. MHM. Magazin der Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften München. Vol. 13. Intimität und Distanz. Eds. Nicole Scherl et.al. MHM-Redaktion V.I.S.D.P.: Munich. With illustrations by Veruschka Glatzeder. 2015. 58–61.

“Eros, In-Between: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah”. [kon] Paper. Magazin für Literatur & Kultur. Vol. 1. Eds. Lucas Dörre and Pia Lobodzinski. LMU Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft. 2015.

Translation

Dogramaci, Burcu et al., eds. Urban Exile: Theories, Methods, Research Practices. Bristol: Intellect. 2023.

Dogramaci, Burcu et al., eds. City Walks: Strolling through Global Metropolises of Exile (“New York,” “Buenos Aires,” “London,” “Istanbul,” “Bombay,” “Shanghai”). Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile (METROMOD). Web. 2021.

Kleine-Benne, Birte, ed. Dispositiv-Erkundungen | Exploring Dispositifs. Berlin: Logos Verlag. 2021.

Dogramaci, Burcu et al., eds. Arrival Cities: Migrating Artists and New Metropolitan Topographies in the 20th Century. Leuven: Leuven University Press. 2020.

Kunze, Franziska. Walentynowicz|Lauritsen – Outside in|Inside out. Exh. cat. 6 ½ Weeks. Museum Folkwang, Essen. 2018.

Linhardt, Franziska and Benedikt Seerieder, eds. Blooming Signals. Munich: icon Verlag Hubert Kretschmer. 2018.

Pinther, Kerstin and Alexandra Weigand, eds. Flow of Forms / Forms of Flow: Design Histories between Africa and Europe. Bielefeld: Transcript. 2018.