Winners of the ASNEL Graduate Award 2013
The recipient of the ASNEL Graduate Award 2013 is:
Maike LENGEMANN (University of Freiburg);
for her graduate thesis "'De powa of de word in the riddum of de word': Local cultural resources for a global market in Trinidadian rapso music." Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christian Mair.
The two complimentary prizes have been awarded to:
Smaran DAYAL (University of Freiburg) for his graduate thesis "'Back-to-Bom!' Urban cosmopolitanism and naming in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children." Thesis supervisor: Dr. Miriam Nandi.
and
Jeyapriya SRIEASWARANATHAN (University of Münster) for her graduate thesis "M(O)ther and Militant, Munition and Make-Up: Discursive Constructions of the Female LTTE Militant Figure." Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mark Stein.
The list of all ASNEL Award winners can be found here: www.gnel.de/e-foerderpreise.htm.
ASNEL Graduate Award winner Ms Andrea Moll awarded "summa cum laude" for doctoral degree
Ms Andrea Moll has received the grade "summa cum laude" for her doctoral thesis on "Jamaican Creole goes web: sociolinguistic styling and authenticity in a digital yaad". Ms Moll is the winner of the ASNEL Graduate Award of 2008. |
24th ASNEL annual conference: CfP extended
The 2013 ASNEL annual conference entitled "Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis"
will take place at Chemnitz University of Technology from 9-11 May 2013. The call for papers has been extended until 22.02.2013. |
Current yearbook
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Postcolonial Translocations. Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking. ASNEL Papers 17. Munkelt, Marga, Markus Schmitz, Mark Stein & Silke Stroh (eds.) Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2013. go to: yearbooks |
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James Berry archive acquired by the British Library
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This month (Oct 2012), the BL has purchased the James Berry archive which includes poetry notebooks spanning the length of his career, along with manuscript and typescript drafts of his poetry and prose (including notes for an unpublished novel), diaries, photographs and audio visual material. James Berry was one of the first migrant Caribbean writers in Britain widely recognised for his work. | |
He came to Britain as part of the first major wave of migrants from the Caribbean in 1948 in the wake of the Nationality Act. Today, Berry is one of the major writers in Black British and Caribbean British literatures. (www.bl.uk, photo: © James Berry) |
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The Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English (ASNEL) represents academics, teachers and students from Germany, Europe and overseas.
ASNEL promotes teaching and research in the field of English-language literatures in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa and the Pacific Region as well as diaspora and transcultural literatures in the English-speaking world.-----
