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Projekt

Of Time-Wounds: Deconstructing Anthropocene Temporalities in Anticolonial Climate Fiction

Betreuer*innen

Prof. Dr. Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp
Prof. Dr. Kylie Crane

This thesis follows the recent critical reorientation of the Anthropocene – moving away from framing it as an undifferentiated universal towards an idea that is shaped by socio-historically particular narratives. Rather than presenting the Anthropocene as a ‘radical break’ of thinking about time, I argue that the Anthropocene instead consolidates colonial time-centred narratives about history, the present and futurity. These narratives are being challenged in what I summarise here as anticolonial climate fiction. In their investigations of the Anthropocene’s legacy of violent colonial discourses, the selected works negotiate and cultivate an otherwise of representing and thinking with time and imagining Anthropocene future presents. They do so by resetting the Anthropocene’s temporal scales to include (continuing) colonial histories and negotiating the aesthetics and poetics of temporalities as well as narrative strategies that centre on themes of history, memory, forgetting, futurity, and survival. Thereby the selected works across different contexts emphasise colonial-temporal power relations as well as the multitude of non-linear and sometimes incommensurable Anthropocenes.

Profil

  • seit 10/2023
    Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2291 "Gegenwart/Literatur" der Universität Bonn
  • 2021-2023
    Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Englisches Seminar, Universität Münster
  • 2016–2020
    Master of Arts, English Literatures and Cultures, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
  • 2017-2018
    Master of Studies, Modern Languages, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford

Conference Papers

  • "Tracing Geologic Life, Extractivism, and Deep Time in N. K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy", Fantastic Climates. Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (GfF), University of Kassel, Germany, 05 – 07 September 2024.
  • "Archives of Nuclear Waste: Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being and the Leaky-ness of the Transpacific," Extractive Zones, Workshop organised by the DFG-Network "Energy & Literature" , University of Cologne, Germany, 16 – 17 May 2024.
  • "Singing History – Noticing Temporal Polyphonies in Merlinda Bobis’ Locust Girl (2015)", Post/Colonial Environments. Annual Conference of the German Society for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS), University of Zurich, Switzerland, 09 – 11 May 2024.
  • with Rita Maricocchi, "Bodies of Water: Embodied Sites of Hydrocolonialism and Indigenous Displacement in “Water” by Ellen van Neerven", Australian Mobilities. Biannual Conference of the German Society for Australian Studies (GASt), University Duisburg-Essen, Germany, 19 – 22 October 2023.
  • "Weaponizing Time in the Museum – Tara June Winch’s The Yield", Emerging Research in Australian Studies. 1st Interdisciplinary Workshop for Early Career Researchers, Centre for Australian Studies (CAS), University of Cologne, Germany, 16 – 17 September 2022.
  • "'not yet - under water' - Rejecting Victimhood and Negotiating the Implicated Subject in Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner’s Ecocritical Poetry", Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literatures
    and Cultures. 32. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Postkoloniale Studien (GAPS), University of Frankfurt, Germany, 26 – 29 May 2022.
  • "'The Universe is a Memory of Our Mistakes' – The Cyclicality of (Future) Histories in Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods”, Anticipatory Environmental Histories from Antiquity to the Anthropocene, University of Augsburg and University of Freiburg, Germany, 24 – 25 February 2022.
  • "Gothicising the Victorian Sanctuary – Boundaries and Space in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, Anne Brontë at 200 Conference, University of Bonn, 17 – 18 January 2020.

  • "Silent Signs of Remembrance – Botanical Representations of Memory in J.R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings", Flora and Fauna in Fantastic Worlds. International Symposium of the Inklingsgesellschaft, University of Bonn, Germany, 08 – 09 March 2019 .

Guest Lectures

  • "It Was Not Worth Speaking": Silence and Waste in Alexis Wright's The Swan Book, University of Rostock, Germany, 28 January 2025
  • "Empty Craters: Nuclear Wastelands and the Erasure of (Hi)Stories in Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner's Video Poem "Anointed"", University of Potsdam, Germany, 03 August 2023

SoSe 2023

"Reading the Transpacific" - Seminar, Universität Münster

WiSe 2022/23

"Imagining and Narrating Migration and Flight" - Seminar, Universität Münster

SoSe 2022

"Social Media, Social Movements, and Narrative" - Seminar, Universität Münster (gemeinsame Lehre mit Dr. Deborah Nyangulu)

"Reading Class: 450 - 1500" - Seminar, Universität Münster

WiSe 2021/22

"Ecocriticism, Gender and Postcolonial Theory in Contemporary Literatur" - Übung, Universität Münster

SoSe 2021

"Introduction to Climate Fiction" - Übung, Universität Münster

WiSe 2020/21

"Climate Change and the Anthropocene in Postcolonial Literatur" - Seminar, Universität Bonn

  • time and temporalities
  • climate fiction
  • postcolonial theory
  • Indigenous literatures
  • Environmental Humanities
  • Energy Humanities
  • Pacific literatures
  • museum studies

Publikationen

Aufsätze

“‘not yet / under water’ – Rejecting Victimhood and Weaving Solidarity in Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner’s Eco-Poetics” .

in: Ecological Solidarities across Post/Colonial Worlds, special issue of Postcolonial Text, vols. 1 & 2, 2024, 1-24.

“Violent Temporalities, the Colonial Museum, and the Fantasy of Terra Nullius in Tara June Winch’s The Yield”.

in: Australian Studies Journal / Zeitschrift für Australienstudien, vol. 37, 2023, pp. 31-47, doi: 10.35515/zfa/asj.37/2023.03